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Definition of Ordeals
1. ordeal [n] - See also: ordeal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordeals
Literary usage of Ordeals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"To the list of ordeals which contain an oath or a curse as their governing element
many other instances might probably be added in which no imprecation has ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"1197) against the proceedings of the civil courts with regard to ordeals (in ...
In "Tristan", Gottfried of Strasburg sets forth his disapproval of ordeals. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"1197) against the proceedings of the civil courts with regard to ordeals (in ...
In "Tristan", Gottfried of Strasburg sets forth his disapproval of ordeals ..."
4. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"In AD 829, ordeals were forbidden not by a Council but by a Parliament ...
The Benedictines say that toward the end of the 11th century, ordeals went a ..."
5. Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions by James Shepard Dennis (1899)
"... used to be the popular way of decid- NO more deadly ordeals jno- between the
... found who subject themselves to much suffering by self-imposed ordeals, ..."
6. The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by Sharon Turner (1841)
"Their ordeals and legal Punishments. WE have a full account of the Anglo-Saxon
ordeals, of hot water and hot iron, in the laws of Ina. ..."
7. The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1866)
"PAGAN ordeals. ordeals belong to times and communities of rudeness, violence,
... The theory of ordeals is, that God will miraculously decide in the case of ..."
8. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, James Murdock (1841)
"[This was a' very common ordeal, and was esteemed more honourable than the ordeals
by water. Sometimes the person walked barefoot over nine or twelve ..."
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