Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun roman_inquisition

1 sense of roman inquisition

Sense 1
Roman Inquisition, Congregation of the Inquisition -- (an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants; "it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial")
       INSTANCE OF=> Inquisition -- (a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy)