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

1 sense of spanish inquisition

Sense 1
Spanish Inquisition -- (an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries); "the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power"; "Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition")
       INSTANCE OF=> Inquisition -- (a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy)