corrody
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Etymology
From Latin corrodium, corredium, conredium (“furniture, provision”): compare Old French conroi. See curry.
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Noun
corrody (plural corrodies)
- (obsolete or historical) A form of pension or annuity given by a religious institution as provision for maintenance.
- 1983, Richard I Harper, “A Note on Corrodies in the Fourteenth Century”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 15, number 2, page 95:
- The corrody became first and foremost a grant of money or victuals, or other means of livelihood, made by a monastery or other religious or charitable corporation to dependents on its bounty.
- 2022, Alison K. McHardy, chapter 2, in James Bothwell and J. S. Hamilton, editors, Fourteenth Century England XII, Boydell & Brewer, page 29:
- Corrodies were of three kinds: retirement arrangements for former abbots and priors; private deals struck by outsiders to provide board and lodging, in return for gifts of cash or property; and […] grants to crown servants.