sotah

Borrowed from Hebrew סוֹטָה (“adulteress”).

sotah (uncountable)

1. (Judaism) An ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.
   • 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 796:

     The ordeal of the sotah worked only in an age when people believed in its power to expose the guilty and exonerate the innocent.

• HOTAS, shoat, Shota, shota, hoast, HATOs, hosta, Athos, has to, oaths