பொருள் : 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).
எடுத்துக்காட்டு :
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.