inquisition
/ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃən/ 名词 C2中文： 审讯、调查、宗教裁判所
- An inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter.
- Such an investigation that is asserted to be persecutory by its adversaries.
- An inquest.
- A questioning.
- The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.
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As the Inquisition rarely allowed its victims to be seen with their limbs distorted and their flesh lacerated by torture, so madness is always concealed in its cell, from whence, should it depart, it is conveyed to some gloomy hospital, where the doctor has no thought for man or mind in the mutilated being the jailer delivers to him.
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