Meanings of chief inquisitor in English

Mr. Stone had the genius and the appearance of a chief inquisitor.

The judge was chief inquisitor; witnesses against the prisoner were alone summoned; and the death.

At last the chief inquisitor laid down his pen and, lifting his eyes towards them, said:

Excited to revolt by the severities of the Inquisition, the Aragonese put to death the chief inquisitor, Pedro Arbues.

Our Heidelberg professor was the chief inquisitor, and he revealed himself to us in a new and entirely unexpected light.

By that door he conducted him to some small rooms, and thence, to the spacious apartments of the chief inquisitor.

In the library of the chief inquisitor he saw a register containing the names of all the officers, who still were numerous.

The priest and the governor united in a representation to the chief inquisitor at Goa, which procured an order for his arrest.

And close to the girl's elbow sat the chief inquisitor, Robin Morrell, big, bold, unabashed, persevering, bringing all possible pressure to force her to recant.

I had now been her chief inquisitor for nearly thirty sittings, and had developed (apparently) the power to throw her into trance almost instantly.

There sate the Chief Inquisitor, smiling, perfectly calm, eating ham and muffins.

The chief Inquisitor raised his mask, and in those gloating features I recognised-Locasto

At the end of it Jean Lemaître himself arrived by order of the Chief Inquisitor.

The election of the Dominican and Chief Inquisitor Michael Ghislieri was a triumph for the policy of Borromeo.

"I am afraid that I missed that rascally chief inquisitor," Ned said.

"Thou hast been cited to our tribunal," said the chief inquisitor.