autocrat rice (atokratris)

[F.] Same as autocratrix. autogenic auto de fe. [This Portuguese form, commonly written auto da fé or auto - da - fé, was the first introduced, and has been most used in English literature.] auto de fe (ou'to dā fā); pl. autos de fe (ou'tōs). [Sp., lit. act (judicial proce , judgment) of faith: auto, phemy, usury, and rese officers of the Inquisition itself. Those convicted were brought from prison, dre ed in the sanbenito, or robe of defamed criminals, which was worked with a cro and other designs, sometimes with grotesque scenes of infernal characters or torments, and varied in its color and pattern in accordance with the severity of the sentence to be pa ed. Each offender was called by name, his crime specified, and its punishment declared, after which all were delivered to the civil officials. Here the auto proper finished; but as the execution of those penalties that were of capital or corporal nature immediately followed, the name was extended to this part, as applied to which it has become popularly accepted. Such punishments were flogging, the pillory, branding or maiming, and death by hanging or burning, according to the prescriptions of the imperial or Caroline code.