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tri⋅al

  [trahy-uhl, trahyl]
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–noun
1. Law.
a. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact.
b. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
2. the act of trying, testing, or putting to the proof.
3. test; proof.
4. an attempt or effort to do something.
5. a tentative or experimental action in order to ascertain results; experiment.
6. the state or position of a person or thing being tried or tested; probation.
7. subjection to suffering or grievous experiences; a distressed or painful state: comfort in the hour of trial.
8. an affliction or trouble.
9. a trying, distressing, or annoying thing or person.
10. Ceramics. a piece of ceramic material used to try the heat of a kiln and the progress of the firing of its contents.
–adjective
11. of, pertaining to, or employed in a trial.
12. done or made by way of trial, proof, or experiment.
13. used in testing, experimenting, etc.
14. acting or serving as a sample, experimental specimen, etc.: a trial offer.
—Idiom
15. on trial,
a. undergoing examination before a judicial tribunal.
b. undergoing a probationary or trial period.
Origin:
1520–30; try + -al 2

Synonyms:
2, 3, 5. examination. Trial, experiment, test imply an attempt to find out something or to find out about something. Trial is the general word for a trying of anything: articles sent for ten days' free trial. Experiment is a trial conducted to prove or illustrate the truth or validity of something, or an attempt to discover something new: an experiment in organic chemistry. Test is a more specific word, referring to a trial under approved and fixed conditions, or a final and decisive trial as a conclusion of past experiments: a test of a new type of airplane. 4. endeavor, essay, struggle. 7. grief, tribulation, distress, sorrow, trouble, hardship. See affliction.
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re·tri·al   (rē'trī'əl, -trīl', rē-trī'əl, -trīl')   
n.  A second trial, as of a legal case.
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Word Origin & History

trial 
1436, "act or process of testing," from Anglo-Fr. trial, noun formed from triet "to try" (see try). Sense of "examining and deciding a case in a court of law" is first recorded 1577; extended to any ordeal by 1595.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: re·tri·al
Pronunciation: "rE-'trI-&l, 'rE-"trI-
Function: noun
: a trial of a matter already tried
NOTE: A retrial is barred by double jeopardy following a mistrial for which there was no manifest necessity.

Main Entry: tri·al
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French, from trier to try
: a judicial examination of issues of fact or law disputed by parties for the purpose of determining the rights of the parties —compare HEARING, INQUEST—at trial : in or during the course of a trial
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: tri·al
Pronunciation: 'trI(-&)l
Function: noun
1 : a tryout or experiment to test quality, value, or usefulness trial of a drug>
2 : one of a number of repetitions of an experiment
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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