trial by ordeal

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• 4. marts 2016 fra wordnet.princeton.edu

  trial by ordeal — navneord — engelsk

  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