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Definition of Water ordeal

Water ordeal
Water ordeal Wa"ter or"de*al Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.

Meaning of Water ordeal from wikipedia

- fire and water was forbidden by Pope Innocent III at the Fourth Council of the Lateran of 1215 and replaced by compurgation. Trials by ordeal became rarer...
- In the Hebrew Bible, the ordeal of the bitter water was a Jewish trial by ordeal administered by a priest in the tabernacle to a wife whose husband suspected...
- areas into the nineteenth century and in 1823 one woman underwent the water ordeal on her own request with the support of the authorities to prove her innocence...
- procedures reestablished themselves in western Europe at that time. The cold water ordeal, however, would rise again during the witch hunts." Mohr, M. D., & Royal...
- due season, has released some sufferers from the further ordeal of the water cure. As the water is administered officially, I suppose that it is not murder...
- issue of Nature, Benveniste lashed out at Maddox and complained about the "ordeal" that he had endured at the hands of the Nature team, comparing it to "Salem...
- Trial by water can refer to: Trial by ordeal Castelseprio, the apocryphal Christian story of the trial of Mary and Joseph by water This disambiguation...
- in 1620. He described his ordeal in Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations (1632): The first and second [measures of water] I gladly received, such...
- Marduk had connections with the River Ordeal. Sin-iddinam's prayer to Ninisina also identified Idlurugu (the river ordeal) as the father of Marduk/Asalluhi...
- 88 The boiling-water ordeal 4.89 Energy in a heated room 4.90 Icehouse orientation 4.91 A radiometer toy and its reversal 4.92 Water wells and storms...