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ܳٴ-岹-é
[ aw-toh-duh-fey ]
noun
- the public declaration of the judgment passed on persons tried in the courts of the Spanish Inquisition, followed by the execution by the civil authorities of the sentences imposed, especially the burning of condemned heretics at the stake.
ܳٴ-岹-é
/ ˌɔːəʊəˈڱɪ /
noun
- history a ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition including the pronouncement and execution of sentences passed on sinners or heretics
- the burning to death of people condemned as heretics by the Inquisition
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ܳٴ-岹-é1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ܳٴ-岹-é1
Example Sentences
Lighting things on fire, so to speak, is Murdoch’s way of reasserting control—and I would not be surprised to learn that the 92-year-old mogul deemed it a very good time to send a message about who is still in charge at Fox Corp by engaging in a round of auto-da-fe.
During World War I, the constitutional amendment swept through the states and Congress like a purging auto-da-fe.
Roth, by then in exile in Paris, called the bonfires an “ܳٴ-岹-é of the mind.”
In preparation for the interview, Ginzburg had read Elias Canetti’s classic work Auto-da-Fé, written eight years before Bobby was born.
An acrobatic jester figure, his face painted skull-white, restores to the ܳٴ-岹-é scene some of its intended spookiness.
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