*corrupt*

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Corrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Corrupting. ] 1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1. Cor. xv. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge
That no king can corrupt. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that makes an ill use of it [ language ], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matt. vi. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. [ Obs. ] “Corruptful bribes.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. corruptibilitas: cf. F. corruptibilité. ] The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corruptibilis: cf. F. corruptible. ] 1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. “Our corruptible bodies.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. [ 1913 Webster ]

They systematically corrupt very corruptible race. Burke.

-- Cor*rupt"i*ble*ness, n. -- Cor*rupt"i*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which may decay and perish; the human body. [ Archaic ] 1 Cor. xv. 53. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner that corrupts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. corruption, L. corruptio. ] 1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to “generation”. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The product of corruption; putrid matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

Syn. -- Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See Depravity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corruptivus: cf. F. corruptif. ] Having the quality of tainting or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being corrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who corrupts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou studied old corruptress. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorruptus. See In- not, and Corrupt. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your Christian principles . . . which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uncorrupted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incorruptibilitas: cf. F. incorruptibilité. ] The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorruptibilis: cf. F. incorruptible. See In- not, and Corrupt. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an incorruptible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incorruptio: cf. F. incorruption. See In- not, and Corruption. ] The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorruptivus. ] Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without corruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incorrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incorruptible. “The glory of the uncorruptible God.” Rom. i. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Incorruption. [ 1913 Webster ]