Crossword-Solution: DELATION 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Thirdly a more severe shock, by the tension and sodden relaxation of the cord, which is sometimes given once, but often twice, thrice, or yet more frequently." "Isaac Orobio, a Jewish physician, related to Limborch the manner in which he had himself been tortured, when thrown into the inquisition at Seville, on the delation of a Moorish servant, whom he had punished for theft, and of another person similarly offended.

That court is to try criminals sent to it by the National Assembly, or brought before it by other courses of delation.

Since he who could bring a criminal to justice received a fourth of his possessions and estates, and since it brought the accuser into prominence, delation was recklessly indulged in by the unscrupulous, both for the sake of gain and as a means of venting personal spite.

Some curious circumstances respecting delation, prison life, and _autos da fé_ are here minutely recorded.] The crimes of which the second or Dominican Inquisition had taken cognizance were designated under the generic name of heresy.

The second secured secrecy in the action of the tribunal, whereby a door was opened to delation, and accused persons were rendered incapable of rational defense.