inquisitorious

English

Adjective

inquisitorious (comparative more inquisitorious, superlative most inquisitorious)

1. (obsolete) inquisitorial.
   • 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:

     the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery , no free and splendid wit can flourish

References

• “inquisitorious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.