Ordalium

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Trial by ordeal. obsolete

Etymology

From New Latin ordālium, from Medieval Latin ordālium, from Old English ordāl (“ordeal”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀdailī. More at ordeal.

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