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† corsned Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈkɔːsnɛd|
Also 8 (erron.) -et.
[OE. cor-snǽd, f. cor choice, selection, investigation, trial (cf. G. kor, kör, choice), f. ablaut stem of céosan to choose, coren chosen + snǽd bit, piece, f. snídan to cut. Called in OFris. cor-bita.]
In OE. law, the morsel of trial, a piece of bread of about an ounce weight consecrated by exorcism (panis conjuratus) which an accused person was required to swallow as a trial of his guilt or innocence.
a1000Laws of Ethelred ix. 22 in Thorpe I. 344 (Bosw.) Gif man freondleasne weofod-þen mid tihtlan belecge, ga to corsnæde. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Corsned, Ordeal-bread, or imprecated Bread. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 369 What was called..corsned (the loaf of execration) or the judicial morsel. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxiii. 74 The use of the ordeal, corsnet. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 339 Corsned, or morsel of execration: being a piece of cheese or bread, of about an ounce in weight, which was consecrated with a form of exorcism; desiring of the Almighty that it might cause convulsions and paleness, and find no passage, if the man was really guilty; but might turn to health and nourishment, if he was innocent. 1845Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. x. 121. 1848 Lytton Harold v. v. |