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Trial By Ordeal

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Noun

1. ordeal, trial by ordeal

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.