Synonym: experience, test, trial, tribulation. Similar words: order, border, in order, deal, ideal, disorder, in order to, out of order. Meaning: [ɔr'dɪːl /ɔː'd-] n. 1. a severe or trying experience 2. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence.
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181. This preconception prevents us from reviewing the ordeal in its special historical circumstance.
182. Since the ordeal began, says Mr. Rios, he has seen friends break down in tears.
183. It was their first experience of western haute cuisine and though they politely ate their way through 14 magnificent courses, their dinner was an ordeal.
184. He listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from everything he said that his ordeal was soon to begin.
185. And he shares the lessons he learned from his ordeal as a motivational speaker.
186. In Sydney, some hours later, a kayaker survived a terrifying ordeal after being knocked from his craft by a great white shark.
187. Because a state may dispense with a jury trial, it does not follow that it may substitute trial by ordeal.
188. Stopping only briefly to regain her composure, she described her agonising ordeal.
189. His father told reporters outside the courthouse that he may file a lawsuit over the ordeal.
190. At the end of the whole cooking ordeal, you will only have what you just finished cooking with to clean up. Ta dah!
191. Since no representative of the Almighty to whom the settlement of the question had been submitted was available, trial by ordeal vanished, to be replaced with trial by jury.
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192. What of the supreme measureless ordeal in which we were again irrevocably plunged?
193. In 60 years, the place is leaded by 2 kings, famine ordeal them.
194. It's a pseudo - psychological trial by ordeal in which the contestants trade candor for dollars.
195. As darkness fell this long and very tiring ordeal, we sailed for Scapa.
196. The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal.
197. People who have spoken to Mr. Jackson say he has simply not felt up to the rigors of performing after his lengthy legal ordeal.
198. I do not think any of us spared a thought for the ordeal of her crew.
199. The campaign of 1828, in which his Jacksonian opponents charged him with corruption and public plunder, was an ordeal Adams did not easily bear.
200. We laid Ron to rest in Arlington National Cemetery; by then I was so exhausted and grief-stricken after the terrible ordeal that I could hardly stand.
201. Their hope helped those people to carry through this last ordeal.
202. I got discharged home 4 months later and what an ordeal: I lost all my muscles, could not walk and had an ileostomy bag full of stools to care for.
203. There are few landmark dates, but 1215 is one: the Lateran Council then forbade the involvement of the clergy in the awful trials by ordeal.
204. On a large television screen the previous day, Elisabeth, 42, had confronted her father with the full horror of her 24-year ordeal in hour after hour of harrowing prerecorded testimony.
205. Judicium Dei, or trial by ordeal, is a widespread legal procedure in medieval European.
206. A woman in the US who survived a five year battle with flesh-eating bacteria, undergoing dozens of operations, including an unusual bowel transplant, has given an interview about her ordeal.
207. It has since mutated into an annual ordeal for reputable universities.
208. Selkirk’s ordeal is believed to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.
209. It consists of the archetypal structure of initiation story : innocence — ordeal — epiphany — maturity.
210. Following his ordeal in the Maldives , Li returned home to Hong Kong and swung into action.
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