| 单词 | fiery ordeal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfiery ordeal (b) figurative. Designating a difficult challenge or an arduous or painful ordeal; spec. designating a test of faith or innocence, esp. one likened to or involving ordeal by fire. Frequently in fiery ordeal, fiery trial. Cf. fire ordeal n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a, ordeal by fire at ordeal n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [adjective] > specific tests fiery1568 double-blind1950 blind1962 single-blind1963 beta test1978 randomized1978 1568 Bible (Bishops') Peter iv. 12 Dearely beloued, thinke it not straunge concerning the fierie triall, which thing is to trye you, as though some straunge thyng happened vnto you. 1670 T. Brooks London's Lamentations i. 41 God by fiery tryals will unfreeze the frozen graces of his people. 1729 G. Adams in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 22 The Saxons of this Land had a Custom not much differing from this, called the Fiery Ordeal. The Manner of this Test was thus: The Person accused passed blindfold through Plough Shares red hot. 1841 Hagerstown (Maryland) Mall 3 Sept. Put me through the ‘fiery ordeal’, and it will be found, that..my morals, to say the least of them, will compare with his. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 395 The fiery trial which England went through. 1924 Times of India 25 Dec. 15/4 The fiery test to which Wolseley was subjected on this occasion might well have affected the temper of baser metal; but he emerged from it triumphantly. 1996 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 59 23 Lommel, pondering..the doctrine of the last fiery ordeal, pointed out that the prophet plainly developed this concept from that of the actual ordeal by fire or by molten metal which was a form of ultimate judicial trial among the Indo-Iranians. < as lemmas |
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