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INQUISITION, practice. An examination of certain facts by a jury impanelled
by the sheriff for the purpose; the instrument of writing on which their
decision is made is also called an inquisition. The sheriff or coroner and
the jury who make the inquisition, are called the inquest.
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We scientists are more than lab rats, however, and the war conducted by inquisitional fundamentalists also concerns us as a threat to sermon-on-the-mount Christians. 27) Of course, Du Bois and the talented tenth did not make havoc or used inquisitional policies to suppress dissident texts, etc, but the intellectual and artistic atmosphere Du Bois' call has created seems to have provided the necessary conditions for an inquisitional censorship of African American art and literature. For Lutherans this compromise seemed to offer official acceptance in Europe; for the fiercely inquisitional Vatican of Pope Paul TV it was a dirty deal with heretics and merely postponed the final Catholic reckoning with Protestantism. |
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