What is the meaning of Ordeal?

(n.) Any severe trial or test; a painful experience.
(n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
(a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

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