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ordeal
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ordeal
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Ordeal
(gcide) | Ordeal \Or"de*al\ ([^o]r"d[-e]*al), n. [AS. ord[=a]l, ord[=ae]l,
a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig.,
what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to [=a]-
compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning,
out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort.]
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.
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Note: 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, either by handling red-hot iron, or by
walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares,
laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped
unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was
condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed,
either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling
water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of
innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand
and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it
was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was
acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase,
to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or
danger, is derived from the ordeal. See {Wager of
battle}, under Wager.
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2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
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Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar.
Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos
growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in
trials for witchcraft.
Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar
(Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons
suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the
plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being
pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
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Ordeal
(gcide) | Ordeal \Or"de*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
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ordeal
(wn) | ordeal
n 1: a severe or trying experience
2: 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 [syn: ordeal, {trial
by ordeal}] |
ORDEAL
(bouvier) | ORDEAL. An ancient superstitious mode of tribal. When in a criminal case the
accused was arraigned, be might select the mode of trial either by God and
his country, that is, by jury; or by God only, that is by ordeal.
2. The trial by ordeal was either by fire or by water. Those who were
tried by the former passed barefooted and blindfolded over nine hot glowing
ploughshares; or were to carry burning irons in their hands; and accordingly
as they escaped or not, they were acquitted or condemned. The water ordeal
was performed either in hot or cold water. In cold water, the parties
suspected were adjudged innocent, if their bodies were not borne up by the
water contrary to the course of nature; and if, after putting their bare
arms or legs into scalding water they came out unhurt, they were taken to be
innocent of the crime.
3. It was impiously supposed that God would, by the mere contrivance of
man, exercise his power in favor of the innocent. 4. Bl. Com. 342; 2 Am.
Jur. 280. For a detailed account of the trial by ordeal, see Herb. Antiq. of
the Inns of Court, 146.
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ordeal
(encz) | ordeal,muka n: Pinoordeal,utrpení n: Zdeněk Brož |
ordeal bean
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ordeal tree
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trial by ordeal
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Fire ordeal
(gcide) | Fire \Fire\ (f[imac]r), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. f[=y]r; akin
to D. vuur, OS. & OHG. fiur, G. feuer, Icel. f[=y]ri,
f[=u]rr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure, E. pure Cf.
Empyrean, Pyre.]
1. The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of
bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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Note: The form of fire exhibited in the combustion of gases
in an ascending stream or current is called flame.
Anciently, fire, air, earth, and water were regarded as
the four elements of which all things are composed.
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2. Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a
stove or a furnace.
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3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
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4. Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
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5. Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth;
consuming violence of temper.
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he had fire in his temper. --Atterbury.
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6. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral
enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
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And bless their critic with a poet's fire. --Pope.
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7. Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
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Stars, hide your fires. --Shak.
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As in a zodiac
representing the heavenly fires. --Milton.
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8. Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
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9. The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were
exposed to a heavy fire.
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Blue fire, Red fire, Green fire (Pyrotech.),
compositions of various combustible substances, as
sulphur, niter, lampblack, etc., the flames of which are
colored by various metallic salts, as those of antimony,
strontium, barium, etc.
Fire alarm
(a) A signal given on the breaking out of a fire.
(b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm.
Fire annihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to be
kept at hand for extinguishing fire by smothering it with
some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid.
Fire balloon.
(a) A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of air
heated by a fire placed in the lower part.
(b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite
at a regulated height. --Simmonds.
Fire bar, a grate bar.
Fire basket, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight.
Fire beetle. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.
Fire blast, a disease of plants which causes them to appear
as if burnt by fire.
Fire box, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for
the fire.
Fire brick, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining
intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or
of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and
used for lining fire boxes, etc.
Fire brigade, an organized body of men for extinguished
fires.
Fire bucket. See under Bucket.
Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through
mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac.
[U.S.]
Fire clay. See under Clay.
Fire company, a company of men managing an engine in
extinguishing fires.
Fire cross. See Fiery cross. [Obs.] --Milton.
Fire damp. See under Damp.
Fire dog. See Firedog, in the Vocabulary.
Fire drill.
(a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for
practice.
(b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by
rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; --
used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by
many savage peoples.
Fire eater.
(a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire.
(b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur.
[Colloq.]
Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels,
for throwing water to extinguish fire.
Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from
burning buildings.
Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam
of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off
afterward by heat.
Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire
gilding.
Fire insurance, the act or system of insuring against fire;
also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes,
in consideration of the payment of a premium or small
percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an
owner of property from loss by fire during a specified
period.
Fire irons, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs,
poker, and shovel.
Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out
fire.
Fire master
(Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the
composition of fireworks.
Fire office, an office at which to effect insurance against
fire.
Fire opal, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections.
Fire ordeal, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test
was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon
red-hot irons. --Abbot.
Fire pan, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially
the receptacle for the priming of a gun.
Fire plug, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the
main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing
fires.
Fire policy, the writing or instrument expressing the
contract of insurance against loss by fire.
Fire pot.
(a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles,
formerly used as a missile in war.
(b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a
furnace.
(c) A crucible.
(d) A solderer's furnace.
Fire raft, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.
Fire roll, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to
their quarters in case of fire.
Fire setting (Mining), the process of softening or cracking
the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by
exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally
superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond.
Fire ship, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.
Fire shovel, a shovel for taking up coals of fire.
Fire stink, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites,
caused by the formation of hydrogen sulfide. --Raymond.
Fire surface, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are
exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of
combustion; heating surface.
Fire swab, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun
in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
--Farrow.
Fire teaser, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine.
Fire water, a strong alcoholic beverage; -- so called by
the American Indians.
Fire worship, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly
in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called
Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India.
Greek fire. See under Greek.
On fire, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager;
zealous.
Running fire, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession
by a line of troops.
St. Anthony's fire, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which
St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn.
St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo.
To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle.
To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.
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Ordeal
(gcide) | Ordeal \Or"de*al\ ([^o]r"d[-e]*al), n. [AS. ord[=a]l, ord[=ae]l,
a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig.,
what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to [=a]-
compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning,
out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Note: 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, either by handling red-hot iron, or by
walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares,
laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped
unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was
condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed,
either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling
water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of
innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand
and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it
was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was
acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase,
to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or
danger, is derived from the ordeal. See {Wager of
battle}, under Wager.
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2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
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Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar.
Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos
growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in
trials for witchcraft.
Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar
(Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons
suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the
plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being
pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
[1913 Webster]Ordeal \Or"de*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
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Ordeal bean
(gcide) | Ordeal \Or"de*al\ ([^o]r"d[-e]*al), n. [AS. ord[=a]l, ord[=ae]l,
a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig.,
what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to [=a]-
compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning,
out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Note: 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, either by handling red-hot iron, or by
walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares,
laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped
unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was
condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed,
either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling
water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of
innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand
and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it
was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was
acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase,
to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or
danger, is derived from the ordeal. See {Wager of
battle}, under Wager.
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2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
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Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar.
Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos
growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in
trials for witchcraft.
Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar
(Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons
suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the
plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being
pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
[1913 Webster]Calabar \Cal"a*bar\, n.
A district on the west coast of Africa.
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Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant
(Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It
is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of
the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and
rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being
used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.
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ordeal bean
(gcide) | Ordeal \Or"de*al\ ([^o]r"d[-e]*al), n. [AS. ord[=a]l, ord[=ae]l,
a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig.,
what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to [=a]-
compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning,
out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Note: 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, either by handling red-hot iron, or by
walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares,
laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped
unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was
condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed,
either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling
water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of
innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand
and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it
was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was
acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase,
to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or
danger, is derived from the ordeal. See {Wager of
battle}, under Wager.
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2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
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Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar.
Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos
growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in
trials for witchcraft.
Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar
(Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons
suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the
plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being
pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
[1913 Webster]Calabar \Cal"a*bar\, n.
A district on the west coast of Africa.
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Calabar bean, The of a climbing legumious plant
(Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It
is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of
the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and
rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being
used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.
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Ordeal root
(gcide) | Ordeal \Or"de*al\ ([^o]r"d[-e]*al), n. [AS. ord[=a]l, ord[=ae]l,
a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig.,
what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to [=a]-
compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning,
out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort.]
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.
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Note: 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, either by handling red-hot iron, or by
walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares,
laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped
unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was
condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed,
either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling
water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of
innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand
and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it
was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was
acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase,
to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or
danger, is derived from the ordeal. See {Wager of
battle}, under Wager.
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2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
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Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar.
Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos
growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in
trials for witchcraft.
Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar
(Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons
suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the
plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being
pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
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Ordeal tree
(gcide) | Ordeal \Or"de*al\ ([^o]r"d[-e]*al), n. [AS. ord[=a]l, ord[=ae]l,
a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig.,
what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to [=a]-
compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning,
out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Note: 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, either by handling red-hot iron, or by
walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares,
laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped
unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was
condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed,
either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling
water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of
innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand
and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it
was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was
acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase,
to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or
danger, is derived from the ordeal. See {Wager of
battle}, under Wager.
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2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
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Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar.
Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos
growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in
trials for witchcraft.
Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar
(Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons
suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the
plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being
pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
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Water ordeal
(gcide) | Water ordeal \Wa"ter or"de*al\
Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n.,
1.
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ordeal
(wn) | ordeal
n 1: a severe or trying experience
2: 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 [syn: ordeal, {trial
by ordeal}] |
ordeal bean
(wn) | ordeal bean
n 1: dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine;
source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft [syn:
calabar bean, ordeal bean] |
ordeal tree
(wn) | ordeal tree
n 1: evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa [syn: {bushman's
poison}, ordeal tree, Acocanthera oppositifolia,
Acocanthera venenata] |
trial by ordeal
(wn) | trial by ordeal
n 1: 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 [syn: ordeal,
trial by ordeal] |
WATER ORDEAL
(bouvier) | WATER ORDEAL. An ancient form of trial, now abolished, by which the accused,
tied band and foot, were cast into cold water, and if they did not sink they
were deemed innocent or they were compelled to plunge their limbs into hot
water, and if they came out unhurt they were considered innocent. Vide
Ordeal.
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