The act of trying or testing in any manner.
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.
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.
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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