Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - ordeal
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(ordeals) If you describe an experience or situation as an ordeal, you think it is difficult and unpleasant. She described her agonising ordeal. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft with poss ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: Middle English ordal, from Old English ordal; akin to Old High German urteil judgment, Old English dal division — more at deal Date: before 12th century 1. a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control ~ by fire 2. a severe trial or experience ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a painful or horrific experience; a severe trial. 2 hist. an ancient esp. Germanic test of guilt or innocence by subjection of the accused to severe pain or torture, survival of which was taken as divine proof of innocence. Phrases and idioms ordeal tree the tanghin. Etymology: OE ordal, ordel f. Gmc: cf. DEAL(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. тяжелое испытание ordeal by battle —- испытание в бою ordeal of adieu —- возв. испытание разлукой to pass through a terrible ordeal —- пройти сквозь тяжелое испытание speaking in public was an ordeal for him —- публично выступать было для него испытанием 2. ист. суд божий trial by ordeal —- испытание судом божьим ordeal bark —- кора ядовитого дерева, употреблявшаяся при испытании судом божьим ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. ordel, lit. "judgment, verdict," from P.Gmc. *uzdailjam (n.), from *uzdailijan "share out," related to O.E. adжlan "to deal out" (see deal). The notion is of the kind of arduous physical test that was believed to determine a person's guilt or innocence by immediate judgment of the deity, an ancient Teutonic mode of trial. Metaphoric extension is 1658. The prefix or- survives in Eng. only in this word, but was common in O.E. and other Gmc. languages (Goth. ur-, O.N. or-, etc.) and was originally an adv. and prep. meaning "out." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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