inquisitory

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Still he had his champions who refused to stop smiling merely because Washington was in an inquisitory phase.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a long moment their eyes, half seen to one another in those shadows, clung almost fiercely, his inquisitory, hers changing as wave followed wave of emotion through her body.

From The Last Straw by Titus, Harold

More directly connected with the commercial and colonial interests of the realm were the subcommittees which the Privy Council used during these years and earlier as advisory and inquisitory bodies.

From British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675 by Andrews, Charles M.

We managed to get Dr. Pappas transferred to the inquisitory where you were being held.

From Security by Anderson, Poul William