ordeal
41ORDEAL OF JEALOUSY — According to Numbers 5:11–31, a woman suspected of adultery that cannot be legally proved is to be brought by her husband to the priest for an ordeal of jealousy. The priest takes holy water (according to Sot. 2:2, from the laver) and mixes into… …
42Ordeal In The Arctic — Infobox Film name = Ordeal In The Arctic imdb id = 0107754 writer = Robert Mason Lee Paul Edwards Patrick Huard Kevin Tierney starring = Richard Chamberlain Catherine Mary Stewart Melanie Mayron Scott Hylands Page Fletcher director = Mark Sobel… …
43Ordeal, trial by — In trial by ordeal, proof of guilt or innocence was determined by God, the accused being tested by an ordeal which proved innocence if no mark was caused by the trial itself. In the laws of Athelstan anyone undergoing this trial had to be blessed …
44ordeal bean — noun dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft • Syn: ↑calabar bean • Hypernyms: ↑bean • Part Holonyms: ↑calabar bean vine, ↑Physostigma venenosum * * * …
45ordeal tree — noun evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa • Syn: ↑bushman s poison, ↑Acocanthera oppositifolia, ↑Acocanthera venenata • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Member Holonyms: ↑Aco …
46ordeal bean — Calabar Cal a*bar, n. A district on the west coast of Africa. [1913 Webster] {Calabar bean}, The of a climbing legumious plant ({Physostigma venenosum}), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of… …
47ordeal tree — any of several trees having poisonous seeds, leaves, etc., used in primitive trials by ordeal. * * * …
48ordeal-bean — nuodingoji kalabarpupė statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Pupinių šeimos vaistinis nuodingas augalas (Physostigma venenosum), paplitęs Afrikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Physostigma venenosum angl. calabar bean; ordeal bean vok. Calabarbohne pranc.… …
49ordeal bark — noun Etymology: so called from its use as an ordeal poison : the poisonous bark of a West African tree (Erythrophloeum guineense) of the family Leguminosae : sassy bark …
50ordeal — noun a) a painful or trying experience b) a trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divi …
