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corseint (1155)
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corseint (1155)

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corpsein,  corpseint,  corpsseint;  corsaint,  corsant,  corssaint,  corsseint  
  FEW:  corpus 2/ii,1214b Gdf:  corsaint 2,315c GdfC: ∅ TL: corsaint  DEAF:  cors 1 (corsaint)  DMF:  corsaint  TLF: ∅ OED:  corsaint n.  MED:  cor-seint n.  DMLBS: ∅

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eccl.(body of) saint: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Le cors seint (=St Edmund’s body) unt desseveli, Kar trover le quident purri  S Edm Life ANTS 2993
( 1329 )  la graunde devocion que nous avoms a mesme sa meson, par reson des corpseyns et des ascune noz auncestres qe ils gisunt  Glastonbury Chart 196
( 1376 )  Et qe Seint Esglise poet estre reulee et governee come ele fuit en temps Seint Gregory et des autres corsseintz  Rot Parl1 ii 338
♦eccl.relic (of a saint): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Muines e altres ordenez, Cors sainz e reliques portant  Brut WACE 9467
( 1327 )  il prie a nostre seignur le roi pur Dieux et pur l’onur de corpseint seint Cuthbert [….]  Rot Parl2 115
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