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(v.t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.(v.t.) The act of purging.(v.i.) To have or produce...

noun Purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels. synonyms:...

Ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which...

nounA primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused...

(Dei iudicium), in slave-owning and feudal societies a kind of test which supposedly helped to...