corsned Meaning, Definition & Usage

Cors"ned noun
Etymology
AS. corsnd.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913