| 单词 | ordeal trial |
| 释义 | > as lemmasordeal trial C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as ordeal fire, ordeal iron, ordeal trial, etc. 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 lOE Laws: Blaseras (Rochester) i. 388 We cwædon be þam blaserum..þæt man..myclade þæt ordalysen, þæt hit gewege þry pund. 1647 A. Cowley Written in Juice of Lemon in Mistress iv Be not discourag'd, but require A more gentle Ordeal Fire. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 4 Who might, perhaps, reduce his Cause To th' Ordeal Tryal of the Laws. 1769 E. Griffith Delicate Distress xliv, in R. Griffith & E. Griffith Two Novels II. 42 I do congratulate my noble friend, myself, and all the world, on that heroic virtue, which has enabled you to pass the ordeal fire, unsullied and unhurt. 1774 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 339 Politics are an ordeal path among red hot ploughshares. 1861 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes i. 26 The ordeal rocks, on which nuns suspected of breaking their vows had their innocence tested, or rather their guilt prejudged. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 490 The intelligent native..squares the common-sense factor by bribing the witch-doctor who makes the ordeal drink. 1988 D. M. Walker Legal Hist. Scotl. I. 284 This grant of gallows and pit in time became the standard attribute..of a grant of barony; pit, originally the ordeal pit, became the baron's dungeon. < as lemmas |
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