Law. A practice of trial in which an accused person is subjected to a test, usually involving physical pain or danger, overcoming of which is taken…
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| 释义 | society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > trial by ordeal (14) ordealOE Law. A practice of trial in which an accused person is subjected to a test, usually involving physical pain or danger, overcoming of which is taken… ordeal triallOE General attributive (in sense 1), as ordeal fire, ordeal iron, ordeal trial, etc. ordalium1577 = ordeal, n. 1. judgement of God1672 The action of trying a case in a court of law; trial. probation1684 Trial by ordeal. Obsolete. rare. Subcategories:— types of (9) |
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