inquisition vs query

inquisition

noun
  • A questioning. 

  • An inquest. 

  • An inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter. 

  • The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry. 

query

noun
  • A question mark. 

  • A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). 

  • A set of instructions passed to a database. 

verb
  • To ask a question. 

  • To send a private message to (a user on IRC). 

  • To send out a query letter. 

  • To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it. 

  • To ask, inquire. 

  • To question or call into doubt. 

How often have the words inquisition and query occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )