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Definition of Corrody
1. Noun. (obsolete) A form of pension or annuity given as provision for maintenance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corrody
1. corody [n -DIES] - See also: corody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrody
Literary usage of Corrody
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Record Series by Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association (1902)
"Of a corrody held by him. [25 EDW. I. No. 63. ... He had that corrody as Canon
of the church of Beverley, and the said portion is worth by the year ten ..."
2. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"So early as the year 1180, in the reign of Henry II., Jeffrey the harper received
a corrody or * In the ancient annual rolls of accompt of ..."
3. A History of the Knights of Malta: Or The Order of the Hospital of St. John by Whitworth Porter (1858)
"CLOTHING corrody. — LAW CHARGES. — REVENUE OF ENGLISH PROPERTY. DURING the three
centuries which had elapsed between the first establishment of the Order of ..."
4. A Manual of Hindu Law: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Standish Grove Grady (1871)
"A corrody seems to be an incorporeal hereditament. ... L. 209, says, But a corrody
being the grant of an annuity assigned upon some particular fund, ..."
5. Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum by Bertram Ashburnham Ashburnham, Charles O'Conor (1896)
"Grant of a corrody by, Staff., and Winshill, co. Derb., [1281- 1305]. Ch. 70.
1305]. Ch. 84. ... corrody ..."
6. Henry VIII and the English Monasteries: An Attempt to Illustrate the History by Francis Aidan Gasquet (1902)
"EXAMPLE of a corrody at Bridlington Priory.— (RO Exch. Augmentation Off. Misc.
Bk., 237, p. 73-) " This indenture at Bridlington the 26th day of September, ..."
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