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auto-da-fé noun[ C ] history specializeduk /ˌɔː.təʊ.dəˈfeɪ/ us /ˌɑː.t̬oʊ.dəˈfeɪ/ In Spain, the auto-da-fé was a public announcement that a person had been found guilty of being a heretic(= someone who had beliefs that were against the country's religion), after which the person was burned to death: He was put on trial and burned at the auto-da-fé in Madrid. A large crowd gathered in order to witness the auto-da-fé. The auto-da-fé was designed to terrify the audience as much as the heretics who were to be killed. The fires of the auto-da-fé burned in the town's main square. The museum had a horribly realistic reconstruction of an auto-da-fé. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Renaissance: 1501 to 1899 ancien régime buccaneer bustle Carolean Caroline enlightenment Industrial Revolution Jacobean Marian Pre-Raphaelite privateer reformation regency renaissance the First Fleet the Wild West Tory Victorian Victoriana Whig |