Inquisition
n. 1. an arm of the Roman
Catholic Church founded in the 13th Century, whose job it was initially to encourage, and very soon
thereafter to enforce, conformity to orthodox Catholic beliefs. Its functions
and methods were passed on to psychiatry in the 20th Century.
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