Definition of "ordeals" []

• Plural form of ordeal. (noun)

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• "One very common method of proof was by what were called ordeals, in which the question was submitted to the judgment of God."
• "Turning now to vain observances in daily life, properly so called, we first meet with the superstitions observed in the administration of justice during many centuries of the Middle Ages, and known as ordeals or "judgments of God"."
• "These rituals, called ordeals, were usually conducted in a church by high-ranking clergy."