Part 2455

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.</def>

<h1>Corrupter</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*rupt"er</hw> <tt>(k?r-r?p"t?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; <as>as, a <ex>corrupter</ex> of morals</as>.</def>

<h1>Corruptful</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*rupt"ful</hw> <tt>(-f?l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Corruptful</i> bribes."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Corruptibility</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*rupt`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(k?r-r?p`t?-b?l"?-t?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>corruptibilitas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>corruptibilit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness.</def>

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Corruptible</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*rupt"i*ble</hw> <tt>(k?r-r?p"t?-b'l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>corruptibilis</ets>: cf. F. <ets>corruptible</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.</def> "Our <i>corruptible</i> bodies."

<i>Hooker.</i>

<blockquote>Ye were not redeemed with <b>corruptible</b> things, as silver and gold. <i>1 Pet. i. 18.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.</def>

<blockquote>They systematically corrupt very <b>corruptible</b> race. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Cor*rupt"i*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> -- <wf>Cor*rupt"i*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Corruptible</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*rupt"i*ble</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That which may decay and perish; the human body.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>1 Cor. xv. 53.</i>

<h1>Corruptingly</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*rupt"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a manner that corrupts.</def>

<h1>Corruption</h1> <Xpage=327>

<hw>Cor*rup"tion</hw> <tt>(k?r-r?p"sh?n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>corruption</ets>, L. <ets>corruptio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.</def>

<blockquote>The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for <b>corruption</b> is a reciprocal to "generation". <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The product of corruption; putrid matter.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.</def>

<blockquote>It was necessary, by exposing the gross <b>corruptions</b> of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They abstained from some of the worst methods of <b>corruption</b> usual to their party in its earlier days. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>