Definition of Trial

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Definition of Trial

Trial

The act of trying or testing in any manner.

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

The act of testing by experience; proof; test.

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

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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Trial Quotations

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
James Madison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
Lewis Carroll

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Ambrose Bierce

Trial Translations

trial in Dutch is probeersel, proefstuk
trial in French is manipulation
trial in German is Versuch, Untersuchung, Erprobung
trial in Italian is esperimento, procedimento
trial in Latin is judicium, tentatio-onis, temptatio, iudicium
trial in Spanish is pleito, ensayo

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