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Definitions of ordeal:

noun: 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
noun: a severe or trying experience

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trial deal crucible tribulation visitation easy-hard jury-system-2 jury lot duel god-7 polytheism code-of-hammurabi animism calabar-bean-2 sierra-leone magic oath witness old-english-language proto-germanic europe england anglo-saxons normans pope-innocent-iii fourth-council-of-the-lateran 1215 compurgation late-middle-ages torture 16th-century johannes-hartlieb corsned red-hot-2 plowshare iron gangrene exile emma-of-normandy adultery bishop-of-winchester gregory-of-tours saint-hyacinth arian-2 cauldron carpini-giovanni-de-piano mongols batu-khan witchcraft poison salic-law india arith sorcery-2 louis-the-pious 829 poaching-2 barrel-5 witch-hunt demonology baptism devil szeged hungary 1728 594 millstone paganism miracle sacred-books-of-the-east early-middle-ages germanic-peoples charlemagne 779 806 876 regino-of-pr-m book-of-numbers ordeal-of-the-bitter-water torah nashim ascites hittite-military-oath burma-4 candle icelandic monty-python bedivere non-sequitur-logic running-the-gauntlet tanghinia ordal water-ordeal cursed-bread ordeal-bean der-regenboge lord-longford perp-walk calabar-bean

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