corrodier means one receiving a corrody, or allowance from the Church, in return for previous payment or service (usually in the Middle Ages). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
noun
- One receiving a corrody, or allowance from the Church, in return for previous payment or service (usually in the Middle Ages)“Outside the minster walls were the cottages of the corrodiers, or folk who, for a corrody, or life pittance from the abbey, had given away their lands.”