meaning of ordeal

1. 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.
2.
Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
3.
Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
4.
a primitive method of determining a persons 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


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