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trial by ordeal

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trial by ordeal

In the Middle Ages, a test of guilt or innocence; see ordeal, trial by.



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The next disagreeable was confined to his feminine companions; it was the mounting of the polished oak stairs, which had very handsome carpets rolled up and laid by in a spare bedroom, so that the ascent of these glossy steps might have served, in barbarous times, as a trial by ordeal from which none but the most spotless virtue could have come off with unbroken limbs.
 
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