单词 | ordeal by fire |
释义 | > as lemmasordeal by fire 1. Law. A practice of trial in which an accused person is subjected to a test, usually involving physical pain or danger, overcoming of which is taken as divine proof of innocence (frequently in ordeal by fire, etc.); (also) the right or prerogative of jurisdiction in a trial of this kind, together with the fees and profits thence accruing. Later applied to analogous modes of determining innocence or guilt found in other societies. Also: a test of this sort; something which decides guilt or innocence. Cf. trial n.1 1b. Now historical.In Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, until its abolition in 1215, the ordeal could take any of four forms: fire, hot water, cold water, and trial by combat.In quot. a1275 the term is apparently misunderstood. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > trial by ordeal ordealOE ordeal triallOE ordalium1577 judgement of God1672 probation1684 OE Laws of Æðelstan (Otho) ii. xix. 160 Gif..[he] ful wyrþe æt þam ordale. lOE Laws of Edward & Guthrum (Rochester) ix. 132 Ordel & aðas syndan tocwedene freolsdagum & rihtfæstendagum. lOE Laws of Edward the Elder (Rochester) i. iii. 140 Eac we cwædon be þam mannum ðe mansworan wæran..þæt hy siððan aðwyrðe næran, ac ordales wyrðe. a1275 in Archaeologia (1883) 47 128 (MED) Hordell et Orest: Hoc est libertas intrandi terras vel sylvas. 1403 Inquisition Henry IV in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1893–4 (1894) 18 64 Quod predicti canonici..predictum manerium..haberent..cum soka et saka thol et theam..forestal et flemensfrith et ordel et Orest. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iii. 1046 By ordal [v.r. ordel] or by oth..lat preve it for the beste. 1463 in Statutes Parl. Ireland (1914) III. 78 (MED) Volumus..quod..ffratres..teneant cum omnibus libertatibus..cum soke & sake..& ordel & orest. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 245 A newe Churche, that he had erected..for the execution of iudgements by the Ordale. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. i. sig. Nv This..right Can hardly but by Sacrament be tride, Or else by ordele, or by blooddy fight. View more context for this quotation 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 66 A tryall by fyre, whiche is but a species of the ordell; for ordalium was a tryall by fyre and water. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 89 A second sort of evidence was that of Ordeale. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 158 in Justice Vindicated The trial of the Ordal. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. iii. 365 A Cloud of Witnesses inform'd against her, she was convicted of notorious Adulteries, and condemn'd to the Trial Ordeal. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xxvii. 342 The most antient species of trial was that by ordeal; which was peculiarly distinguished by the appellation of judicium Dei. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 239 If any one of the suspected household refuse to submit to the ordeal of bier-right? 1848 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 261/2 The ordeal by fire, of old, left its ineffaceable marks on the scathed and callous flesh of those who successfully endured it. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1123/2 In Madagascar the natives formerly placed the most unlimited confidence in the poisonous seed of the Tanghin as an infallible detector of guilt... The portion used as an ordeal is the seed. 1961 Speculum 36 613 (title) The intellectual preparation for the Canon of 1215 against Ordeals. 1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes v. 56 ‘Ordeal by battle’ remained theoretically legal in Britain until 1818; even today some Frenchmen hold that a wrong can be righted by a duel. 1988 D. M. Walker Legal Hist. of Scotl. I. 285 The main intellectual attack rested on the argument that the ordeal was wrong because it was uncanonical and it tempted God. < as lemmas |
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