corsepresent

Etymology

From corse + present.

corsepresent means an offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

noun

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.“It was anciently usual to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it came to be buried ; and thence it is sometimes called a corsepresent: a term which bespeaks it to have been once a voluntary donation”