| 单词 | ordeal bark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasordeal bark ordeal bark n. the bark of the sassy tree, Erythrophleum suaveolens, used as an ordeal poison. ΚΠ 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 531 Erythrophlœum guineense, the Sassy Tree of Western Africa.—The bark, under the name of ‘ordeal bark’ or ‘doom bark’, is used in certain parts of Africa as an ordeal, to which persons suspected of witchcraft, secret murder, &c., are subjected as a test of their innocence or guilt. 1910 W. Martindale & W. W. Westcott Extra Pharmacopœia (ed. 14) 315 Casca Bark.—Syn. Sassy Bark; Ordeal Bark. The bark of Erythrophlœum Guineense. < as lemmas |
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