| 单词 | fire ordeal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire ordeal fire ordeal n. now chiefly historical a test of guilt or innocence in which a person is subjected to trial by fire; the practice of administering such tests; cf. sense A. 11, water-ordeal n. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > trial by ordeal > types of corsneda1000 water-ordeallOE waterdoom1580 fire ordeal1612 alfet1678 bier-right1828 1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. i. 65 To purge her selfe of a scandall raised on her with Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester, she vnder-went the triall of Fire-Ordeall (which was to passe blind-fold, with bare feete, ouer certaine plough-shares, made red hot, and laid an vneuen distance one before the other) which she safely performed. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. i. 41 That new kind of Fire-Ordeal. 1839 Methodist Mag. Jan. 32 The fire ordeal was for the higher classes of the people, and the water for the lower. 1995 K. Blanchard Anthropol. of Sport (rev. ed.) v. 141 Initiates are painted, tossed into the air, bled, subjected to fire ordeals, circumcised, and subincised. Becoming a man among the Arunta is both an important and painful process. 2007 A. Schmid in B. A. Brower & B. R. Johnston Disappearing Peoples? vi. 117 Blacksmiths also participated..in jurisprudence—conducting the fire ordeal to convict thieves and other culprits. < as lemmas |
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