Obs. Forms: 4 cors seynt, cors-sancte, cor-seynt, corseint, -sant, -saunt, -sand, 4–5 -saynt, -seynt, 5 coresaynte. [a. OF. cors saint, mod.F. corps saint holy body, body of a saint.] The body of a saint; a sainted person, (departed) saint (considered as locally present where his or her body rests).
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 8740. And hys ymage ful feyre depeynte Ryȝt as he were a cors seynt.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VI. 23. Knowest þou ouht a Corseynt Men calleþ Seynt Treuþe?
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, Clemens, 873. Þat cristine mene suld nocht mak Cors-sancte of hyme, na honoure do.
1393. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), 186. [At the] hegh auter in the wirschip of the haly corsand.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1164. He sekez seyntez bot seldene … That thus clekys this corsaunt owt of þir heghe clyffez.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 2. Saynt cuthbert lyfe who lyste to lere, And forto knawe þat coresaynte clere.
a. 1500. Chaucer’s Dreme, 942. He trowed hire compleynt Shold after cause hire be corseynt.
