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means A harsh, relentless investigation or interrogation — originally a formal inquiry, especially one conducted by church authorities to root out heresy.

from From Latin inquisitio, 'a searching into,' from inquirere — in- ('into') plus quaerere ('to seek, ask'). Quaerere is the same root behind 'question,' 'query,' and 'quest.' The word was a neutral legal term for investigation long before the capital-I Inquisition — the medieval and early modern Church tribunals hunting heresy — stained it permanently with the smell of torture chambers and forced confessions.