Correspondent
(Cor`re*spond"ent) a. [Cf. F. correspondant.] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in
accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
Hooker.
As fast the correspondent passions rise.
Thomson.
I will be correspondent to command.
Shak.
Correspondent
(Cor`re*spond"ent), n.
1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macaulay.
2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a
distance.
Correspondently
(Cor`re*spond"ent*ly), adv. In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
Corresponding
(Cor`re*spond"ing), a.
1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.
2. Carrying on intercourse by letters.
Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond
with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.
Correspondingly
(Cor`re*spond"ing*ly), adv. In a corresponding manner; conformably.
Corresponsive
(Cor`re*spon"sive) a. Corresponding; conformable; adapted. Shak. — Cor`re*spon"sive*ly,
adv.
Corridor
(Cor"ri*dor) n. [F., fr. Itt. corridpore, or Sp. corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a running or
long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere to run. See Course.]
1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [R.]
Corrie
(Cor"rie) n. Same as Correi. [Scot.] Geikie.
Corrigendum
(||Cor`ri*gen"dum) n.; pl. Corrigenda (- d). [L.] A fault or error to be corrected.
Corrigent
(Cor"ri*gent) n. [L. corrigens, p. pr. of corrigere to correct.] (Med.) A substance added to
a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.
Corrigibility
(Cor`ri*gi*bil"i*ty) n. Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
Corrigible
(Cor"ri*gi*ble) a. [LL. corribilis, fr. L. corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See Correrct.]
1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
2. Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck." Shak.
