fire ordeal
now chiefly historical
noun
A test of guilt or innocence in which a person is subjected to trial by fire; the practice of administering such tests.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Samuel Daniel (?1563–1619), poet and historian.
- unrest
- unrestable
- unrested
- unrestful
- unrestfully
- unrestfulness
- unresting
- unrestingly
- unrestless
- unrestorable
- unrestorative
- unrestored
- unrestoring
- unrestrainable
- unrestrained
- unrestrainedly
- unrestrainedness
- unrestraint
- unrestricted
- unrestrictedly
- unrestrictedness
- unrestrictive
- unresty
- unretained
- unretaliated