1. (n.) Any severe trial or test; a painful experience\.

2. (n.) 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.

3. (a.) of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

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