Cors"ned (k?rs"n?d), n. [AS. corsnd.] AS.Laws

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.

 

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