| Spanish Inquisition | |
| —n | |
| See also Inquisition the institution that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain, chiefly by the persecution of heretics, Jews, etc, esp from the 15th to 17th centuries | |
The church court of the Inquisition, as established in Spain in the late fifteenth century. (See also Tomás de Torquemada.)