In Old English law, the morsel of trial, a piece of bread of about an ounce weight consecrated by exorcism (panis conjuratus) which an accused…

A practice in which an accused person is subjected to a trial by water, usually involving physical pain or danger, overcoming of which is taken…

Ordeal by water, as practised in the early medieval period.

a test of guilt or innocence in which a person is subjected to trial by fire; the practice of administering such tests; cf. sense A. 11, water-ordeal…

A type of cauldron, spec. one filled with scalding water and employed in trials of ordeal; (in later use) the ordeal itself.

an ordeal in which a person, accused of murder, was required to approach the corpse, and clear himself on oath.