inquisitorial

inquisitorial has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 13.

Definitions

• a.. Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.
• a.. Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.
• a.. having the authority to conduct official investigations; "the inquisitorial power of the Senate"
• a.. marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor; "the press was inquisitorial to the point of antagonism"; "a practical police force with true inquisitorial talents"- Waldo Frank
• a.. especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge