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corbana

1 corbana, ~an [LL < Heb.] , treasury (cf.Mark vii II, Matth. xxvii 6; also fig.). corban, custodia divitiarum GlC C 621; cum xxx argentei pretium sanguinis essent, non sunt missi in ~an Gir. GE II 24 p. 282; corbănăn exponant prelati; non licet illis / claudere thesaurum, sed reserare Deo Garl. Tri. Eccl. 141; a1430 nummisma sensus in carbonam precludendo Cant. Coll. Ox. III 70; hec garbana, A. hordehouse WW; a tresory, ~an sacerdotum est, gazophilacium populorum CathA; 1541 instrumentum super x s. ‥ in corbono seu quadam cista imponendis Reg. Aberd. I 419.
2 corbana, ~us [cf. corbis] , basket. 1223 pro j ~o empto ad bladum portandum, ij d. ob. Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/11 r. 1; 1300 portando quamdam carbanam cum bracio Cal. RCoron Lond. 12.

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