Meanings
nouncorsepresent (plural corsepresents)
plural corsepresents · alternative corse-present
- UKhistoricallawAn 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
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
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