TRIAL BY ORDEAL meaning: Judicial practice using painful tests

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trial by ordeal)

▸ noun: (law) An archaic practice by which a person accused of a crime could prove their innocence by their survival of physically painful tests.

Similar:

ordalium, tryall, tryal, alfet, question, fanding, probacy, test, sufferance, endura, more...

Opposite:

trial by jury, due process, fair trial

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