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CIDE DICTIONARY

corsned

CIDE DICTIONARY

corsnedn. [AS. corsn.].
     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.  Burril.  [1913 Webster]

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