Or-dā'li-an, a.
a. [See infra.] Of, or pertaining to, trial by ordeal. [Obs. and rare.] To make the sword arbiter of such differences, were no better than to revive the old ordalian trial used by our heathen ancestors. Bp. Hall.
a. [See infra.] Of, or pertaining to, trial by ordeal. [Obs. and rare.] To make the sword arbiter of such differences, were no better than to revive the old ordalian trial used by our heathen ancestors. Bp. Hall.