English Explanatory Dictionary

soulscot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A funeral payment, formerly made at the grave, usually to the parish priest in whose church service for the departed had been said; a mortuary.

Word forms

soulscot soulscots soul-scot soul-shot

Etymology

From Middle English saulesoth, *soulescot, from sāwolsċeatt (“an ecclesiastical due, to be paid for every deceased person to the clergy of the church to which he belonged, in consideration of the services performed by them in his behalf”), equivalent to soul + scot.

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