Trial

['traɪəl]

Definition

(noun.) (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; 'he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty'; 'most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial'.

(noun.) trying something to find out about it; 'a sample for ten days free trial'; 'a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain'.

(noun.) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; 'his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him'; 'life is full of tribulations'; 'a visitation of the plague'.

(noun.) (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; 'the trials for the semifinals began yesterday'.

Inputed by Betty--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act of trying or testing in any manner.

(n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.

(n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.

(n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.

(n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.

(n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.

(n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.

Checked by Amy

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Testing, examination, experiment.[2]. Experience, experimental knowledge.[3]. Attempt, endeavor, effort, essay, exertion, struggle, aim.[4]. Test, criterion, proof, touchstone, ordeal, assay.[5]. Suffering, trouble, affliction, grief, sorrow, distress, tribulation, misery, woe.[6]. Suit, case, cause, action.

Checker: Sheena

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Test, gauge, experiment, temptation, trouble, affliction, grief, burden,suffering, attempt, endeavor, proof, essay, criterion, ordeal, tribulation,verification

ANT:Non-trial, non-probation, mismeasurement, miscalculation, misestimate, trifle,triviality, alleviation, relief, disburdenment, refreshment, non-attempt,pretermission, oversight, disregard, non-verification

Editor: Michel

Definition

n. a trying: the act of trying: examination by a test: the state of being tried: suffering: temptation: judicial examination: attempt: a piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.—ns. Trī′al-day (Shak.) day of trial; Trī′al-fire (Shak.) a fire for trying or proving; Trī′al-trip an experimental trip of a new vessel to test her sailing-powers &c.—On trial on probation as an experiment.

Editor: Manuel

Unserious Contents or Definition

n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant the prisoner or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being or a socialist but in mediaeval times animals fishes reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life or practiced sorcery was duly arrested tried and if condemned put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal and after testimony argument and condemnation if they continued in contumaciam the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs upsetting him were arrested on a warrant tried and punished. In Naples an ass was condemned to be burned at the stake but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs bulls horses cocks dogs goats etc. greatly it is believed to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne and the Bishop of Lausanne instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University directed that some of 'the aquatic worms ' be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches both present and absent were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain of incurring 'the malediction of God. ' In the voluminous records of this cause celebre nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction.

Editor: Susanna

Examples

Typist: Rex

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