Entertainment / Literature / Trial By Combat: A means of resolving disputes between knights in which both agree to meet at an agreed-upon time and place and fight with agreed-upon weapons. The knight who was in the right and honest in his words would be the one to win the day, since in popular medieval theology, it was thought that God would favor the just. In actual point of fact, the late medieval church condemned trial by combat as barbaric, though records of it persist through the early 1300s. The habit of gentlemanly duels, which continued through the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Early Romantic period, along with the Western American practice of the gun-fight, are vague remnants of this earlier practice among knights. Shakespeare uses this ritual in the opening scenes of Richard II. See lists, chivalry, trial by ordeal, and feudalism. Contrast with trial by ordeal.
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By Adverb Synonyms: past, nearby
By Preposition Synonyms: near, beside, next to, close to, alongside
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Combat Noun Synonyms: struggle, contest, strife, controversy, dispute, quarrel, disagreement, altercation, vendetta, feud
Combat Adjective Synonyms: fight, encounter, engagement, duel, battle, conflict, war, warfare, skirmish
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Trial Verb Synonyms: hearing, enquiry or inquiry, examination, inquisition, litigation, judicial proceeding, lawsuit, contest
Trial Noun Synonyms: test, testing, experiment, proof, try-out, trying out, trial run, examination, check, checking, dry run
Trial Adjective Synonyms: try, attempt, endeavour, effort, venture, essay, go, shot, stab, fling, whirl, crack, whack
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Business / Finance / Nearby Futures Contract: When several futures contracts are considered, the contract with the closest settlement date is called the nearby futures contract. The next (or the 'next out') futures contract is the one that settle MORE
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