arbitrament

The high contracting parties having thus agreed upon terms of mutual animosity, to all appearance there remained only the arbitrament of battle.

Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament.

Recollect that the Democratic party did all the things of which I have told you, when the fate of our nation was submitted to the arbitrament of the sword.

So each man hung upon Elmscott's answer as upon the arbitrament of his own fortune.

This is the meaning of the Nicene Council in the great arbitrament between the Spiritual and the Civil Powers, or, in Catholic language, between the Priesthood and the Empire.