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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(ecclesiastical law, historical) 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..
O, by my soulscot, I do love to tell My stories with the haste I often count, At drowsy night, my Paternoster belt.
He will pay his brotherhood yearly, and soulscot on the death of a brother or sister, except for reason of poverty; […]
The vagaries of the records bar any firm calculation of membership figures – especially as receipts include money for 'soulscot', presumably made on behalf of the dead.
[…] churchscot, a render paid annually in grain; lightscot, candles or oil for lighting church lamps; plough-alms, assessed at a penny per plough; and soulscot, a payment in return for burial in a church graveyard.
Use soulscot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soulscot means (ecclesiastical law, historical) 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..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
O, by my soulscot, I do love to tell My stories with the haste I often count, At drowsy night, my Paternoster belt.
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