What's the difference between inquisitorial and inquisitorious?
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.
Inquisitorious
Definition:
(a.) Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial.
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.