mortpay
nounEtymology From French mort (“dead”) + English pay.
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Historical, Obsolete The crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
- the severe punishing of mortpays and keeping back soldiers' wages in captain1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC: