inquisitorial
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Inquests are officially meant to be inquisitorial - their aim is to find facts in a calm, sober way.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The inquisitorial stance was, she said, her role as a congressional overseer charged with holding people accountable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
In the later medieval period, before we get into the modern witch panics, you occasionally got women who were found by inquisitorial boards to be guilty of witchcraft when they were being investigated for heresy.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2023
In a letter to the judge, Mr. Trump’s legal team said “the judicial system relies upon vigorous advocacy amongst the parties, rather than inquisitorial research by the presiding judicial officer.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Here the affair seems to have dropped, for it had long been evident that the inquisitorial methods were of no avail when the accused constituted the great body of a nation.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
