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<h1>Corrigible</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor"ri*gi*ble</hw> <tt>(k?r"r?-j?-b'l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>corribilis</ets>, fr. L. <ets>corrigere</ets> to correct: cf. F. <ets>corrigible</ets>. See <er>Correrct</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; <as>as, a <ex>corrigible</ex> fault</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Submissive to correction; docile.</def> "Bending down his <i>corrigible</i> neck."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Deserving chastisement; punishable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He was taken up very short, and adjudged <b>corrigible</b> for such presumptuous language. <i>Howell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Having power to correct; corrective.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The . . . .<b>corrigible</b> authority of this lies in our wills. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Corrigibleness</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor"ri*gi*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.</def>

<h1>Corrival</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*ri"val</hw> <tt>(k?r-r?"v<it>a</it>l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Corrival</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*ri"val</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Fleetwood.</i>

<h1>Corrival</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*ri"val</hw>, <tt>v. i. & t.</tt> <def>To compete with; to rival.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Corrivalry</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*ri"val*ry</hw> <tt>(k?r-r?"v<it>a</it>l-r?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Corivalry.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Corrivalship</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*ri"val*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Corivalry.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>By the <b>corrivalship</b> of Shager his false friend. <i>Sir T. Herbert.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Corrivate</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor"ri*vate</hw> <tt>(k?r"r?-v?t)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>corrivatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>corrivare</ets> to corrivate.]</ety> <def>To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Burton.</i>

<h1>Corrivation</h1> <Xpage=327>

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