1) Ceremony of the Inquisition 2) Inquisition 3) Inquisition ceremony
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1) Christian term 2) German-language novel 3) Play by Tennessee Williams 4) Short story by Roger Zelazny
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[play] Auto-da-Fé is a one-act 1941 play by Tennessee Williams. The plot concerns a young postal worker, Eloi, whose sexuality is repressed by a rigidly moralistic mother. ...
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[short story] `Auto-da-Fé` is a short story by Roger Zelazny from Harlan Ellison`s science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions. The plot concerns a bullfight where the bull has been replaced by a car-fight, and the bullfighter by `mechadors` who combats a robotized Chevrolet or Pontiac. It has been reprinted at least 40 times, in at least ...
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An auto-da-fé or auto-de-fé (`act of faith`) was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided their punishment, followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed. The most extreme punishment imposed on those conv.....
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burning of a heretic
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• (n.) A session of the court of Inquisition. • (n.) An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies. • (n.) A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons acc...
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a public ceremony during which the sentences upon those brought before the Spanish Inquisition were read and after which the sentences were executed ... [1 related articles]
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Religious ceremony, including a procession, solemn mass, and sermon, which accompanied the sentencing of heretics by the Spanish
Inquisition be ...
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Au'to-da-fé' noun ;
plural Autos-da-fé [ Portuguese , act of the faith;
auto act, from Latin
actus +
da of the +
fé faith, from Latin
fides .]
1. A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons ac...
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Auto da fe (Act of Faith) was the ritual execution of heretics by the Inquisition after a confession had been extracted. The ceremony always took place on a Sunday, but not at regular intervals, maybe once every two, three or four years. The victims were walked in procession wearing the san benito, the coroza, the rope around the neck, and carrying...
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[
n] - the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
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noun the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
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Religious ceremony, including a procession, solemn mass, and sermon, which accompanied the sentencing of heretics by the Spanish Inquisition before they were handed over to the secular authorities for punishment, usually burning
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the public declaration of the judgment passed on persons tried in the courts of the the Spanish Inquisition, followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed, esp. the burning of condemned heretics at the stake.
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