It would be a weariness of the flesh to follow in detail these fruitless efforts of the Suprema to force the tribunals to comply with the law, but a carta acordada of 1604 affords a glimpse into some of the tricks and evasions resorted to.
With this the Inquisition did not interfere, as its professed object was the saving of souls and it even, by a carta acordada of 1632, permitted communion to dying heretics who had confessed judicially and satisfied the evidence.
On that fearful night the Acordada was unusually full of desperadoes, whom the civil disorders and stagnation of business had driven to crime.
The Acordada Prison is the principal state as well as city prison.
In the night of the Acordada insurrection, the Spanish shop-keepers of the Parian found themselves utterly defenseless.
The Acordadagave its name to that night insurrection to which I have so often referred.
The Acordada was a conspicuous building at Mexico made use of in Zavala's insurrection.
The cruel tyrant who had made him governor of the Acordada knew his man, and had already, as rumour said, with history to confirm it, more than once availed himself of this means to get rid of enemies, personal or political.
All the tortures the Acordada could inflict upon him, all the toil and degradation would be easier to bear than that.
These gifts of friendship, or gages d'amour, were usually eatables from the nearest cook-shop; their donors well knowing that the fare of the Acordada was neither plentiful nor sumptuous.
But the Governor of the Acordada had control of details, and to his hostility and spleen, late stirred by that wordy encounter with Rivas, the latter was no doubt indebted for the partiality shown him by Don Pedro's head turnkey.
I suppose by this time the Acordada will be empty.
At all events, I won't send you back to the Acordada gaol, and the tender care of its governor.
Still, there were others now in the Acordada who had done the same, receiving treatment altogether different.
He had come to the Acordada to indulge in the luxury of a little vapouring over his fallen foes, whom he knew to be there, having been informed of all that had befallen them from Mier up to Mexico.
For the first two days of their imprisonment in the Acordada neither of the Texans could understand why they were being thus punished--as it were to satisfy some personal spite.
I take it you don't find the atmosphere of the Acordada quite so pleasant as the fresh breezes of prairie-land, eh?
But to desperadoes such as are some of the Acordada gaol-birds it would not be so if left leg free.
As in their arrest, so in torture the sentence, by a cartaacordada of 1633, had to be submitted to the Suprema for confirmation.
A carta acordada of October 16th contained directions for the enforcement of its prescriptions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acordada" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
