SPANISH INQUISITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spanish Inquisition mean? 

• SPANISH INQUISITION (noun)
  The noun SPANISH INQUISITION has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: SPANISH INQUISITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPANISH INQUISITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

Torquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition

Instance hypernyms:

Inquisition (a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy)