Spanish Inquisition 西班牙宗教法庭
spanish inquisition[ noun ]
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)
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the Spanish Inquisition was administered by both civil and church authorities which gave it ultimate powerTorquemada was the inquisitor general for the Spanish Inquisition