inquisition Copy link Outline I. Official examinationII. The Spanish i. • inquisition: I. Official examination: quaestio, inquīsītio: v. enquiry (II.) II. The Spanish i.: inquīsītio de fide, Erasm. Coll. 1, 229: or, quaestio inter haereticos, Bau.; quaestio fidei, Pontan. (both in Kr.). As a tribunal, *quaesitores inter haereticos.