corseint (1190-93)
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corseint (1190-93)

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

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1(body of) saint: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Le cors seint (=St Edmund’s body) unt desseveli, Kar trover le quident purri  2993
( 1329 )  la graunde devocion que nous avoms a mesme sa meson, par reson des corpseyns et des ascune noz auncestres qe ils gisunt  196
( 1376 )  Et qe Seint Esglise poet estre reulee & governee come ele fuit en temps Seint Gregory & des autres corsseintz  ii 338
♦relic (of saints): 
( 1327 )  il prie a nostre seignur le roi pur Dieux et pur l’onur de corpseint seint Cuthbert [….]  115
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