Trial
Definition of Trial
Tri´al | n. | 1. | The act of trying or testing in any manner. | | 2. | Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected. | | 2. | 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. | | 3. | The act of testing by experience; proof; test. | | 3. | 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. | | 4. | Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc. | | 4. | (Law) 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. |
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