Meanings
nouncorrodier (plural corrodiers)
plural corrodiers
- historicalOne receiving a corrody, or allowance from the Church, in return for previous payment or service (usually in the Middle Ages)
Outside the minster walls were the cottages of the corrodiers, or folk who, for a corrody, or life pittance from the abbey, had given away their lands.
1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 279
Origin
- Latincorrodium
- Englishcorrodier
From Latin corrodium, corredium, conredium (“furniture, provision”).
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