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Torquemada

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Noun

1. tomas de torquemada, torquemada

the Spaniard who as Grand Inquisitor was responsible for the death of thousands of Jews and suspected witches during the Spanish Inquisition (1420-1498)

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Torquemada

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noun
Tomás de (toˈmas de). 1420–98, Spanish Dominican monk. As first Inquisitor-General of Spain (1483–98), he was responsible for the burning of some 2000 heretics

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Torquemada

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Tomás de (tɔˈmɑs ðɛ ) ; t^ōmäsˈ the) 1420-98; Sp. Dominican monk: first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Torquemada

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Spanish Dominican friar who headed the Spanish Inquisition (1483-1498). Under his authority thousands of people, many of them descendants of Jewish or Muslim converts to Christianity, were tortured and executed for apostasy and heresy.

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