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Pronunciation: [ˈɪnkwɪsˌɪtəz] (IPA)

Inquisitors, also known as interrogators, examiners, detectives and inspectors, refer to individuals who conduct inquiries or investigations to uncover evidence or information about a particular situation. These individuals are often associated with religious groups, law enforcement agencies or government agencies tasked with investigating crimes or suspicious activities. In addition, other words such as auditors, scrutineers, researchers, and fact-finders can also be used to describe individuals who engage in similar tasks of searching for information or conducting investigations. The synonym used is dependent on the context within which the word is being used, but all in all, they all refer to individuals working to get to the bottom of a situation.
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A long table extended through the centre of the room, at which sat the inquisitors and their secretary; at the other end, a stool was placed for the prisoner.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Nor are the inquisitors confined to any one section of the House, for while that part is played chiefly by the Opposition, the government often receives a caution from its own supporters also.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
1592. After being confined for seven years by the inquisitors, he was tried, and burnt at Rome 17 Feb 1600. At his last moments a crucifix was offered him, which he nobly rejected.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

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  • Barely a hundred and fifty years had passed since Galileo's experiment at Pisa had ushered in the new order of things; a mere instant as compared with the previous life of the race. Yet, this brief span had witnessed a complete shift in the outlook of the intellectual leaders of humanity: from blind adherence to authority and dogma towards a healthy habit of facing facts and an enlightened faith in the efficacy of reason. Few doubted that this buoyancy and self-reliance of the leaders would eventually reach the masses, thus causing a profound metamorphosis in the attitude of the common man towards his own life and the destinies of his race. ...Led by thinkers, and under the banners of liberty, happiness, and truth, humanity was to emerge into a Golden Age, free from oppression and strife. Alas! The French Revolution... resembled more a convention of inquisitors and hangmen than it did an assembly of enlightened emancipators. ...After twenty years of adventure, the humanitarian aspirations bequeathed by the Encyclopedists, tattered and trampled first by a bloody republic, then by a still bloodier empire, were finally declared dead by the Holy Alliance.
    Tobias Dantzig
  • Of women he [Voltaire] has no very high opinion. To judge from his treatment of them, their minds are exclusively occupied by the prospect of making love to handsome young men with good figures, though, being both venal and timid, they are prepared to hire their bodies to old inquisitors or soldiers if, by so doing, they can save their own lives or amass riches. They are inconstant, and will gladly cut off the nose of a husband fondly mourned in order to cure a new lover.
    André Maurois

Related words: inquisitor, inquisition, inquisitor's target, inquisitors of the round table, inquisitors of dumitrios

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