a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed | the act of testing something |
| (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law |
| the act of undergoing testing |
| trying something to find out about it |
| an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event |
| (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications |