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inquisidor.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
inquisidor.
Principal English Translation: 

an inquisator, a member of the Inquisition; one who questions others, investigates, often within the Catholic church (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
ynquisidor
Attestations from sources in English: 

ynquisidor Achtopa catca mexico = first he was inquisitor in Mexico (central Mexico, 1608)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 152–3.

in yehuantzitzin cenca mahuiztililoni inquisidoresme = the very reverend inquisitors (central Mexico, 1608)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 152–3.

Doctor Juan gutierrez flores ynquisidor = doctor Juan Gutiérrez Flores, lesser inquisitor (central Mexico, 1613)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 264–5.

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