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Definition of Ordalian
1. a. Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Definition of Ordalian
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to ordalium. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ordalian
1. pertaining to ordalium [adj] - See also: ordalium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordalian
Literary usage of Ordalian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon, Louis Francoi̧s Fain (1821)
"... s. l'action d'or donner, de commander ou de prescrire ou 2>ien, ordination ,f.
l'action d'ordon ner ou de conférer les ordres. ordalian 1 ..."
2. Harrison's Description of England in Shakspere's Youth: Being the Second and by William Harrison (1877)
"... it (hall not be amille to let downe the forme of their ordalian law, which
they brought hither 2 with them from beyond the feas [out of ..."
3. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"The judgment to carry hot iron, to try the guilt or innocency of the criminal,
was, according to the ordalian law, not abolished here m England till King ..."
4. The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1835)
"This ordalian law was condemned by Pope Stephen the Second, and afterwards totally
abolished here by parliament, as appears by Rot. Paten, de anno 2 Hen. ..."
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