We found 34 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word ordeal:
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 General (26 matching dictionaries)
- ordeal: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- ordeal: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- ordeal: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Ordeal: Wiktionary [home, info]
- ordeal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- ordeal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- ordeal: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Ordeal, ordeal: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- ordeal: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Ordeal (level of OA membership), Ordeal, The Ordeal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Ordeal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- ordeal: Rhymezone [home, info]
- ordeal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
- Ordeal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
- Ordeal: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- ordeal: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- ordeal: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- ordeal: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Art (1 matching dictionary)
- ORDEAL: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary) [home, info]
Business (3 matching dictionaries)
- Ordeal: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
- ORDEAL: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
- ordeal: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- ordeal: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- ordeal: online medical dictionary [home, info]
Science (2 matching dictionaries)
- Ordeal: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
- ordeal: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (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
▸ noun: a severe or trying experience
▸ Word origin
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