• (n.) An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king`s servants as he may designate to receive it.
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Cor'o·dy noun [ Late Latin
corrodium ,
corredium ,
conredium , furniture, provision: confer Old French
conroi .
See Curry .]
(Old Law) An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of th...
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A corody or corbody was an allowance of meat, drink, or clothing, anciently due to the king from an abbey or other religious house, for the sustenance of such of his servants as he thought good to place there for maintenance. Corodies were also retained by the private founders of religious houses and even granted to benefactors, and consisted in th...
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a right to receive maintenance in the form of housing, food, or clothing, esp. the right enjoyed by the sovereign or a private benefactor to receive such maintenance from a religious house. · the housing, food, or clothing so received.
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