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- Ordeal - n. - 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.
- Ordeal - n. - Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
- Ordeal - a. - Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
- Sassy bark - - The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlaeum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark.
- Tanghinia - n. - The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
- Water ordeal - - Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.
- Corsned - n. - The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.