(n.) An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions.
(n.) One whose official duty it is to examine and inquire, as coroners, sheriffs, etc.
(n.) A member of the Court of Inquisition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dramatic rise in profile of the committee system in recent times has too often laid bare the disappointing calibre of MP inquisitors, with the spy chiefs' appearance before the intelligence and security committee this week being a case in point.
(2) Though the party has done the running, his teenage inquisitor has a point: the most recent poll, by Populus, puts the Lib Dems on 18%.
(3) His inquisitors tried to eke out what Cain would have done had he been in the White House but to little avail.
(4) It was Dimbleby, though, who became Griffin's chief inquisitor, holding him to account on the detail of his past.
(5) He craved a smile as assiduously as he would avoid a left hook, and so natural was he in front of a microphone that he often reduced his inquisitors to silent witnesses, most famously Michael Parkinson, whose interviews with Ali are the stuff of legend.
(6) General elections, however, were the time when all the grand inquisitor's talents as cross-examiner came on full display, when the televsion public saw "the scowling, frowning, glowering" Robin Day "with those cruel glasses" (Frankie Howerd's description), as well as the relieving shafts of humour.
(7) Photograph: Farmers Daily China “Dostoyevsky wrote in The Grand Inquisitor about ruling with magic, mystery and the sword.
(8) She highlighted a number of “missed opportunities” by HMRC inquisitors to examine a list of 6,800 UK-related accounts provided in 2010 by French authorities.
(9) It now transpired that a security system operated by DPS was trained on the office of one of its chief inquisitors and that disciplinary action (proposed dismissal) was being taken against an informant, ostensibly on another basis.
(10) But now, with Frosty dead, and the great inquisitors – Paxo, Humphrys – nearing retirement?
(11) Earlier in the evening arch rival Channel 4 News, which appeared to revel in the great Newsnight inquisitor’s farewell by sending Jon Snow to interview Paxman and posting a YouTube video with its own long-serving anchor singing “Paxo, please don’t go!” , drew 500,000 viewers and a 2.6% share from 7pm.
(12) Cruddas dismisses journalists' boasts about the ruthlessness of television's inquisitors as so much wind.
(13) They will face a tag-team of inquisitors: Field’s work and pensions select committee, and the business, innovation and skills (BIS) committee chaired by Iain “Leading” Wright.
(14) I am the one who has been there in the international summits, he told his inquisitor.
(15) Having regard to his current position, the political sensitivity of these investigations are self-evident, and they underscore the particular importance of the perceived political impartiality of the inquisitor,” the AWU’s lawyers wrote.
(16) But the Commons defence committee concludes: "We regard parliament's role as one of a strategic inquisitor on military deployments … We conclude that, wherever possible, parliament should be consulted prior to the commencement of military action but recognise that this will not always be possible such as when urgent action is required."
(17) It is no secret that some of his US inquisitors see the hearings in Washington on Wednesday as an opportunity to subject Toyoda to a dressing down in the full glare of the world's media.
(18) They did not much feel like talking and many of their inquisitors did not much feel like asking.
(19) How on earth do you interview Jeremy Paxman , the grand inquisitor, the most-feared interrogator of the age, once voted the fourth scariest person on television?
(20) Watch the compilation of Paxo's greatest hits and they consist chiefly of the grand inquisitor shredding politicians.
Inquisitorial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.
(a.) Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the late 1960s I applied for a job at the BBC in Glasgow and was, as people at the BBC used to say, "boarded", meaning that I went to be interviewed by six or seven executives who sat at a long table facing me rather like the inquisitorial Roundheads in the William Frederick Yeames painting And When Did You Last See Your Father?
(2) That was followed by reference to the need for privacy and libel law reform via "another mechanism for swift resolution of privacy and small libel-type issues" that could operate as an "inquisitorial regime, which can be done without lawyers" and that contained "some mechanism for members of the public to be able to challenge decisions" made by newspapers.
(3) Bethanie Mattek-Sands criticises Wimbledon's 'excessive' clothing rule Read more This year, however, the all-white policy was felt to have verged on the inquisitorial as it ruled on bra straps and visible underwear .
(4) The inquest was an inquisitorial process to find a cause of death; the trial an adversarial process to apportion criminal blame.
(5) The father of Jaafar Majeed Muhyi applied for a judicial review of the Ministry of Defence’s decision not to hold an “inquisitorial” inquiry into his son’s death in May 2003.
(6) British courts have an adversarial rather than an inquisitorial approach to discovering the truth.
(7) One way to combat this, he believed, was to end the adversarial system in the courts, which he saw as "an invitation to the police to commit perjury" and to replace it with an "infinitely preferable" European inquisitorial system.
(8) Instead of a sober inquisitorial process it descended into an adversarial attack, and instead of a search for the truth we witnessed taxpayer-funded lawyers on a frolic, cross-examining police officers as if they were on trial.” King cited the cross-examination of a senior police commander as an example of lawyers “twisting words” and grandstanding to the media.
(9) That disparity is due to the fact that the continent’s inquisitorial system employs far more judges per head of population and consequently spends far less on legal aid for defendants and claimants than the UK adversarial system.
(10) The procedures for providing courts with expert scientific evidence under the adversarial and inquisitorial systems are reviewed with special reference to the role of the Home Office as the principal purveyor of such evidence at English law.
(11) The IPC would, he added, be "inquisitorial rather than adversarial".
(12) His inquisitorial attitude toward his Tory opponents did not stop him from voting with them, as he did over gun control in 1996.
(13) Britain’s common law procedures are significantly different from most of the continent, where judge-led inquisitorial systems are dominant.