Search Result:Spanish Inquisition
Overview of noun spanish_inquisition
The noun spanish inquisition has 1 sense
- Spanish Inquisition -- (an inquisition initiated in 1478 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries); "the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate power"; "Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition")