Definition of Tral
Tri"al (?), n. [From Try.]
1. The act of trying or testing in any manner.
Specifically: --
(a) Any effort or exertion of strength for the
purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
[I] defy thee to the trial of mortal
fight. Milton.
(b) The act of testing by experience; proof;
test.
Repeated trials of the issues and events of
actions. Bp. Wilkins.
(c) Examination by a test; experiment, as in
chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
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.
Others had trial of cruel mockings and
scourgings. Heb. xi. 36.
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.
Every station is exposed to some trials.
Rogers.
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.
Syn. -- Test; attempt; endeavor; effort; experiment; proof;
essay. See Test, and Attempt.
Tri"al (?), n. [From Try.]
1. The act of trying or testing in any manner.
Specifically: --
(a) Any effort or exertion of strength for the
purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
[I] defy thee to the trial of mortal
fight. Milton.
(b) The act of testing by experience; proof;
test.
Repeated trials of the issues and events of
actions. Bp. Wilkins.
(c) Examination by a test; experiment, as in
chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
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.
Others had trial of cruel mockings and
scourgings. Heb. xi. 36.
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.
Every station is exposed to some trials.
Rogers.
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.
Syn. -- Test; attempt; endeavor; effort; experiment; proof;
essay. See Test, and Attempt.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
TRIAL, 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 and 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.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- a chance to test something out; a test.
They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.
- appearance at judicial court.
- a difficult experience.
- Pertaining to a trial or test.
- Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis.
- Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components.
- Triple.
- (grammar): pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, as people; contrast singular, dual and plural.
Dutch
- Cross with small but sturdy and very versatile bicycles
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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