inquisitory

Adjective

inquisitory (comparative more inquisitory, superlative most inquisitory)

1. In the manner of an inquisition or inquiry.
   • Called into being probably because of the continued emigration of Puritans to New England, the complaints against the Massachusetts charter, and the growth of Independency in that colony, it was in origin a coercive, not an inquisitory, body, in the same class with the courts of Star Chamber and...1908, Herbert Baxter Adams, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

   Synonyms:

   inquisitorial