1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. Bacon.
2. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.
Corrupter
(Cor*rupt"er) n. One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.
Corruptful
(Cor*rupt"ful) a. Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. [Obs.] "Corruptful bribes." Spenser.
Corruptibility
(Cor*rupt`i*bil"i*ty) n. [L. corruptibilitas: cf. F. corruptibilité.] The quality of being corruptible; the
possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.
Corruptible
(Cor*rupt"i*ble) 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.
Corruptible
(Cor*rupt"i*ble), n. That which may decay and perish; the human body. [Archaic] 1 Cor. xv.
53.
Corruptingly
(Cor*rupt"ing*ly), adv. In a manner that corrupts.
Corruption
(Cor*rup"tion) 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.
The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a
reciprocal to "generation".
Bacon.
2. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
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.
It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation
against them.
Hallam.
They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
Bancroft.
Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of
pecuniary considerations. Abbott.
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.
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.
Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament.
Blackstone.
