1) American autobiography 2) An audit may be one 3) April 15, for many 4) April 15, for most of us 5) Baptism by fire 6) Baptism of fire 7) Being shipwrecked 8) Big test 9) Boot camp, to many 10) Boot camp, typically 11) Difficult challenge 12) Difficult experience 13) Difficult test 14) Difficult trial
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1) Chore 2) Display 3) Misfortune 4) Shock 5) Test 6) Trial
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[horse] Ordeal was a New Zealand Standardbred racemare. A notable achievement was winning the Rowe Cup, the top event in New Zealand for trotting horses. Ordeal was considered the top trotter in New Zealand in the 1960s, but had moderate success in the United States. She was the first ever trotter to break the 2:00 mile barrier in New Zeala...
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• (n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience. • (n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes. • (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
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a trial or judgment of the truth of some claim or accusation by various means based on the belief that the outcome will reflect the judgment of ... [9 related articles]
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1. An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes. ... In England ordeal by fire and ordeal by water were used, the former confined to persons of rank, the latter to the common people. The ordeal by fire was performed, eith...
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Or'de·al adjective Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
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Or'de·al (ôr'de* a l) noun [ Anglo-Saxon ordāl , ordǣl , a judgment; akin to Dutch oordeel , German urteil , urtheil ; orig., what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to ā- compounded with verbs, German er- ,
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An obsolete common law practice, discouraged by the Church, which submitted the accused, or the accuser, or both, to the Judgement of God, usually with fire or water. Whoever died, or whose wounds festered, was considered guilty. An ancient superstitious mode of trial. When in a criminal case the accused was arraigned, be might select the mode of.....
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Ordeal is a primitive mode of trial of testing the guilt of an accused person based upon the belief that heaven will protect the innocent and allow the guilty to suffer. Methods employed include walking barefoot on hot coals, dipping the hands into boiling water and carrying red hot irons.
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n] - a severe or trying experience
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trial by ordeal 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
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any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial. · a primitive form of trial to determine guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to fire, poison, or other serious danger, the result being regarded as a divine or preternatural judgment.
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