Significados de trial by ordeal en inglés

The King summons Elsa to answer the charge and decrees trial by ordeal of battle.

Yet football's trial by ordeal is anything but over.

The trial by ordeal was of various kinds.

Warren Hastings has found, from Asiatic researches, that trial by ordeal was common among the Hindoos.

Well, it's a trial by ordeal, and we're to see which of us can pass it.

Leadership in modern democracy is subject to trial by ordeal more searing than anything else in public life.

This practice was known as trial by ordeal, and plants used for the trials were called ordeal beans.

At one time they attempted thus to suppress usury and trial by ordeal, which at other times they allowed.

The trial by ordeal was abolished in this reign by order of council; a faint mark of improvement in the age.

There was to be a trial by ordeal of battle, and while the duchess waited for the coming of a champion, lo!

It is not uncommon for an accused person to challenge his accuser to a kind of trial by ordeal, at the local temple.

Legislation rested with the Chiefs and trial by ordeal was common, but always so arranged that the result could be controlled by the judge.

The above account of the unfortunate wife was called " trial by ordeal," of which Clarke gives a minute description in his commentaries.

Trial by ordeal was abolished in this country in the year 1218.

Several hours had passed since the end of the Trial by Ordeal.

Trials by ordeal used to be very common among the natives.