inquisitorial

adj

1. Of or pertaining to an inquisition, specifically the Inquisition.

   “To parody the inquisitorial rhetoric of another age, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a boy-lover.”

2. In a manner of inquisition or inquisitors.

   “Those few who by some luck happen to escape the madness of social hypnotization are afraid to give expression to their thoughts, because they are terrorized by the inquisitorial intolerance of crazed mobs and frenzied nations.”

3. Describing a trial system in which the prosecutor also acts as judge.