Dictionary entry

Corruptible

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cor‐rupt″i‐ble (k?r–r?p″t?–b'l), a. [L. corruptibilis: cf. F. corruptible.] 1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. “Our corruptible bodies.” Hooker.

Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold.

1 Pet. i. 18.

2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.

They systematically corrupt very corruptible race.

Burke.

— Cor‐rupt″i‐ble‐ness, n. — Cor‐rupt″i‐bly, adv.