ROMAN INQUISITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Roman Inquisition mean? 

• ROMAN INQUISITION (noun)
  The noun ROMAN INQUISITION has 1 sense:

1. an inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants

  Familiarity information: ROMAN INQUISITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMAN INQUISITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inquisition set up in Italy in 1542 to curb the number of Protestants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Congregation of the Inquisition; Roman Inquisition

Context example:

it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial

Instance hypernyms:

Inquisition (a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy)