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.
INQUISITION Copy link • INQUISITIONquaestio (general term, a judicial trial): quaestio de fide Christianā habita (a religious inquisition, as in Spain): *quaesitores fidei (the inquisitors themselves): to hold an inquisition against anybody, quaestionem habere de aliquo or in aliquem.