alfet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm, used as a form of trial in Medieval England.

   “ALFET, antiently ſignified the Cauldron in which boiling Water was put, for the Accuſed to plunge his Hand in up to the Elbow, by way of Trial of Purgation.”