corsepresent
nounEtymology
From corse + present.
Definitions
An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
- It was anciently usual to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it came to be buried ; and thence it is sometimes called a corsepresent: a term which bespeaks it to have been once a voluntary donation
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