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Definition of Corsned
1. n. The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.
Definition of Corsned
1. Noun. (legal obsolete) The morsel of execration; an ordeal consisting of the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corsned
1. a historical legal process [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corsned
Literary usage of Corsned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing an Account by John Lingard (1845)
"The corsned was a cake of barley bread, of the weight of one ounce, and seems to
have been in- r ' Leg. Sax. p. 61. ..."
2. The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books by William Blackstone, Robert Malcolm Kerr (1869)
"This corsned was then given to the suspected person, who at the same time also
received the holy sacrament;* it indeed the ..."
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