Inquisitor

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inquisitor \In*quis"i*tor\, n. [L.: cf. F. inquisiteur. See
     {Inquire}.]
     1. An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions. [R.]
        "Inquisitors are tatlers." --Feltham.
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     2. (Law) One whose official duty it is to examine and
        inquire, as coroners, sheriffs, etc. --Mozley & W.
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     3. (R.C.Ch.) A member of the Court of Inquisition.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inquisitor
       n 1: a questioner who is excessively harsh [syn: {interrogator}]
       2: an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "inquisitor":
     Paul Pry, Peeping Tom, asker, busybody, catechist,
     cross-interrogator, cross-questioner, detective, eavesdropper,
     examiner, gossip, inquirer, inquisitionist, inquisitive,
     interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator, interrogatrix,
     interviewer, nosy Parker, opinion-sampler, poller, pollster,
     prober, pry, querier, querist, questioner, questionist, quidnunc,
     quizzer, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sampler, scopophiliac,
     secret agent, sightseer, snoop, snooper, voyeur, yenta
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INQUISITOR. A designation of sheriffs, coroners, super visum corporis, and 
  the like, who have power to inquire into certain matters. 
       2. The name, of an officer, among ecclesiastics, who is authorized to 
  inquire into heresies, and the like, and to punish them. An ecclesiastical 
  judge.