NOUN
- a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
How To Use trial by ordeal In A Sentence
- But the trial by ordeal through which he must pass is a fair one. Times, Sunday Times
- That's what trial by ordeal would have been like. Times, Sunday Times
- Trial by ordeal was abolished completely. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
- If the opposite parties were countrymen, they were to follow their national customs, whatever they were; if the appellee were a foreigner, or of foreign descent, he might offer wager of battle, and on its being declined, purge himself by his own oath and that of his witnesses, according to the Norman law; or if a native of the country, he might have his choice of the trial by ordeal or by battle. Coronation Anecdotes
- The early methods of trial were compurgation or trial by ordeal or wager of law.
