corroval 
COrroval (kor'o-val), . An arrow-poison of the 
United States of Colombia, which produces gen- 
eral muscular and cardiac paralysis. 
corrovaline (kor'6-val-in), . [< eorroval + 
-jt 2 .] An alkaloid derived from corroval, prob- 
ably identical with curarine. 
corrugant (kor'o-gant), a. [< L. corrugan(t-)s, 
ppr. of corrugare, wrinkle: see corrugate, v.] 
Having the power of corrugating, or contract- 
ing into wrinkles or folds. Johnson. 
corrugate (kor'0-gat), . t.; pret. and pp. eor- 
i-ii/itited, ppr. corrugating. [\ L. corrugatus, pp. 
of corrugare, conrugarc (> It. corrugare = Sp. 
corrugar), wrinkle, < com-, together, + rugare, 
wrinkle, < ruga, a wrinkle, fold.] To wrinkle ; 
draw or contract into folds ; pucker: as, to cor- 
rugate the skin ; to corrugate iron plates for use 
in building. 
Cold and dryness do both of them contract and corru- 
tiatc. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
corrugate (kor'-gat), a. [< L. corrugatus, pp. : 
see the verb.] 1. Wrinkled; contracted ; puck- 
ered. 
Extended views a narrow mind extend ; 
Push out its corrugate, expansive make. 
Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 1384. 
2. In zool. and hot., having a wrinkled appear- 
ance : applied to a surface closely covered with 
parallel and generally curved or wavy sharp 
ridges which are separated by deep and often 
depressed lines. 
corrugated (kor'o-ga-ted), p. a. [< corrugate 
+ -co 2 .] Wrinkled ; bent or drawn into paral- 
lel furrows or ridges : as, corrugated iron. 
Not level and smooth, hut corrugated; tossed into moun- 
tains and reefs of sand, seamed with shallow ravines, and 
enclosing in the sweep of the sand-hills immense plains. 
W. 11. Rimell, Diary in India, I. 34. 
Corrugated Iron. See inn. 
corrugation (kor-o-ga'shon), n. [= P. corruga- 
tion, < L. as if *corrugatio(n-), < corrugare, wrin- 
kle: see corrugate.] A wrinkling; contraction 
into wrinkles ; a wrinkled, furrowed, or puck- 
ered state or condition. 
COrrugator (kor'g-ga-tor), n. ; pi. corrngatores 
(kor"o-ga-to'rez). [=' P. corrugateur = Sp. 
corrugador = It. corrugatore, < NL. corrugator, 
< L. corrugare. pp. corrugatus, wrinkle: see 
corrugate, v.] In anat., a muscle the action of 
which contracts into wrinkles the part it acts 
upon : as, the corrugator supercilii, one of a 
pair of small muscles situated on each side of 
the forehead, which contract or knit the brows. 
Corrugator cutis ani, the wrinkler of the skin of the 
anus, a thin layer of involuntary muscular fibers radiating 
from the anus, which by their contraction cause folds of 
skin radiating from the orifice. 
COrrugent (kor'ij-jent), a. [Improp. for corru- 
gant.] In anat., drawing together ; contracting. 
Corrugent muscle. Same as corrugator. Imp. Diet. 
corrumpt (ko-rump'), v. t. and i. [ME. corrum- 
pen, corumpen, corompen, < OF. corrumpre, cor- 
rompre, P. corrompre = Sp. Pg. corromper = 
It. eorrompere, < L. corrumpere, conrumpere, pp. 
corruptus, conruptus, corrupt : see corrupt.] To 
corrupt. 
The clothred blood, for eny leche-craft, 
Corrmnpeth. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1888. 
It is nat hoot and moist as eir ; for eir corrumpith a 
thing a-noon, as it schewith weel by generacioun of flies, 
and areins [spiders], and siche othere. 
Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 2. 
corrumpablet (ko-rum'pa-bl), a. [ME. (Halli- 
well), < OF. corrumpable, corrompable, F. cor- 
rompable (= Sp. corrompible = It. corrompevole), 
< corrumpre, corrompre, corrupt: see corrump.] 
Corruptible. Lydgate. 
corrumptiont, n. [ME. corrumpcioun, an erro- 
neous form of corruption, after corrump.'] Cor- 
ruption. 
The elementes alle sal be clene 
Of alle corrumpcwuns that we here se. 
Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1. 6352. 
corrupt (ko-rupf), v. [< ME. corrupten, corup- 
ten, CL. corruptus, conruptus, pp. of corrumpere, 
conrumpere, destroy, ruin, injure, spoil, corrupt, 
bribe, < com-, together, + rumpere, break in 
pieces: see rupture. Cf. corrump.'} I. trans. 
If. To injure; mar; spoil; destroy. 
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where 
moth and rust doth corrupt. Mat. vi. 19. 
2. To vitiate physically ; render unsound ; taint 
or contaminate as with disease ; decompose : 
as, to corrupt the blood. 
Some there were that died presently after they got 
ashore, it being certainly the quality of the place either 
to kill, or cure quickly, as the bodies are more or lesse cor- 
rupted. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, II. 166. 
3. To change from a sound to a putrid or pu- 
trescent state; cause the decomposition of (an 
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organic body), as by a natural process, accom- 
panied by a fetid smell ; change from a good to 
a bad physical condition, in any way. 4. To 
vitiate or deprave, in a moral sense; change 
from good to bad; infect with evil; pervert; 
debase. 
What force ill companie hath, to corrupt good wittes, the 
wisest men know best. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 52. 
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 
1 Cor. xv. 33. 
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just ; 
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 
Conversation will not corrupt us, if we come to the as- 
sembly in our own garb and speech, and with the energy 
of health to select what is ours and reject what is not. 
Emerson, Society and Solitude. 
Plenty corrupts the melody 
That made thee famous once, when young. 
Tennyson, The Blackbird. 
5. To pervert or vitiate the integrity of ; entice 
from allegiance, or from a good to an evil course 
of conduct ; influence by a bribe or other wrong 
motive. 
Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a Judge 
That no king can corrupt. Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 1. 
The guards, corrupted, arm themselves against 
Their late protected master. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 2. 
The money which the King received from France had 
been largely employed to corrupt members of Parliament. 
Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
6. To debase or render impure by alterations 
or innovations ; infect with imperfections or er- 
rors ; falsify ; pervert: as, to corrupt language ; 
to corrupt a text. 
In like manner have they corrupt the scripture. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 44. 
= Syn. 2. Spoil, taint. 4. Contaminate, deprave, demor- 
alize. See taint, v. t. 
II. intrans. To become putrid ; putrefy ; rot. 
The aptness of air or water to corrupt or putrefy. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., Int. to ix. 
= Syn. Decay, Putrefy, etc. See rot. 
corrupt (ko-rupf), a. [< ME. corrupt, cortipt 
= Sp. Pg. corrupto = It. corrotto, < L. corruptus, 
pp.: see the verb.] 1. Decomposing, or show- 
ing signs of decomposition ; putrid ; spoiled ; 
tainted; vitiated. 
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolish- 
ness. Ps. xxxvlii. 5. 
Corrupt and pestilent bread. Knollen. 
2. Debased in character; depraved; perverted; 
infected with evil. 
They are corrupt ; they have done abominable works. 
Ps. xiv. 1. 
At what ease 
Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt 
To swear against you? Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 1. 
The word corrupt means broken together, dissolved into 
mixture and confusion which is the opposite of purity. 
Bushnell, Sermons for New Life, p. 265. 
3. Dishonest; without integrity; guilty of dis- 
honesty involving bribery, or a disposition to 
bribe or be bribed : as, corrupt practices ; a cor- 
rupt judge. 
If political power must be denied to working men be- 
cause they are corrupt, it must be denied to all classes 
whatever for the same reason, 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 248. 
4. Changed for the worse ; debased or falsified 
by admixture, addition, or alteration ; errone- 
ous or full of errors: as, a corrupt text. 
Of the Massacre of Paris (of which only a single early 
edition exists, in a corrupt condition and without date) it 
is unnecessary to say much. 
A.. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., 1. 192. 
Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, a Brit- 
ish statute of 1883 (46 and 47 Viet., c. 51) intended to se- 
cure the purity of elections to Parliament. 
COrrupter (ko-rup'ter), TO. One who or that 
which corrupts. Also written corruptor. 
They knew them to be the main corruptors at the king's 
elbow. MUton, Eikonoklastes. 
corruptful (kg-rupt'ful), a. [< corrupt + -fill, 
irreg. suffixed to a verb.] Tending to corrupt ; 
corrupt; corrupting; vitiating. [Bare.] 
Boasting of this honourable borough to support its own 
dignity and independency against all corruptful encroach- 
ments. J. Baillie. 
corruptibility (ko -rup - ti -bil ' i - ti), n. [< LL. 
comiptibilita(t-)s, < L. corruptibilis, corruptible : 
see corruptible.] The capability of being cor- 
rupted, in any sense of the word; corruptible- 
ness. 
Frequency of elections . . . has a tendency . . . not to 
lessen corruptibility. Burke, Independence of Parliament. 
corruptible (ko-rup'ti-bl), a. [= P. corruptible 
= Pr. Sp. corruptible = Pg. eorruptivel = It. cor- 
ruttevole, corruttibile, < LL. corruptibilis, conrup- 
corruption 
tilnlis, < L. corruptus, pp. of cnrrumi>rr<>,. corrupt : 
see corrupt, r.] 1. That may be corrupted ; sub- 
ject to decay, putrefaction, or destruction : as, 
this corruptible body. 
This corruptible must put on incorniption, and this mor- 
tal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. xv. 53. 
2. That may be contaminated or vitiated in 
qualities or principles ; susceptible of being de- 
praved, tainted, or changed for the worse : as, 
manners are corruptible by evil example. 3. 
Open to bribing ; susceptible of being bribed : 
as, corruptible voters. 
corruptibleness (ko-rup'ti-bl-nes), TO. Suscep- 
tibility of corruption ; corruptibility. 
corruptibly (ko-rup'ti-bli), adv. In such a 
manner as to be corrupted or vitiated. 
It is too late : the life of all his blood 
Is touch'd corruptibly. Shak., K. John, v. 7. 
Corrupticolae (kor-up-tik'o-le), TO. pi. [LL., < 
L. corruptus, corrupt (in reference to the al- 
leged corruptible nature of Christ's body), + co- 
lere, worship.] The name given by Western 
writers to the Phthartolatrse, a Christian sect 
of the sixth century, which held that the body 
of Christ was necessarily and naturally corrup- 
tible, in opposition to another Monophysite 
sect, the Aphthartodocetse. 
corruption (ko-rup'shon), . [< ME. corrup- 
cion, corrupcioun, corupcion = D. corritptie = 
Dan. korruption, < OF. corruption, corrupcion, 
F. corruption = Pr. corrupcio = Sp. corrupcion 
= Pg. corrupgao = It. corruzione, < L. corrup- 
tio(n-), conruptio(n-), < corrumpere, pp. corrup- 
tus, corrupt : see corrupt, v.] 1 . The act of cor- 
rupting, or the state of being corrupt or putrid ; 
the destruction of the natural form of an organic 
body by decomposition accompanied by putre- 
faction ; physical dissolution. 
Lyve thou soleyn, wermis corupcwun! 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 614. 
Corruption is a proceeding from a being to a not being, 
as from an oak to chips or ashes. Blundeville. 
Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corrup- 
tion. Ps. xvi. 10. 
2. Putrid matter ; pus. 
For swellings also they vse small peeces of touchwood, 
in the forme of clones, which pricking on the griefe they 
burne close to the flesh, and from thence draw the corrup- 
tion with their mouth. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 137. 
3. Depravity ; wickedness ; perversion or ex- 
tinction of moral principles ; loss of purity or 
integrity. 
Having escaped the corruption that is in the world 
through lust. 2 Pet. i. 4. 
4. Debasement or deterioration. 
After my death I wish no other herald, . . . 
To keep mine honour from corntption, 
But such an honest chronicler as Grittith. 
.S/mA-.. Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 
5. Perversion; vitiation: as, a corruption of 
language. 
At this day, by corruptwn of the name, it is called Lom- 
bardy. Coryat, Crudities, 1. 100. 
The general corruption of manners in servants is owing 
to the conduct of masters. Steele, Spectator, No. 107. 
His [Shakspere's] works have come down to us in a con- 
dition of manifest and admitted corntption in some por- 
tions, while in others there is an obscurity. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 172. 
6. A corrupt or debased form of a word: as, 
" sparrow-grass " is a corruption of "aspara- 
gus." 7. A perverting, vitiating, or deprav- 
ing influence ; more specifically, bribery. 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 
Blest paper credit t last and best supply ! 
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 40. 
Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. 
J. Adams. 
Corruption essentially consists ... in distributing the 
appointments and favours of the State otherwise than 
with a sole regard to merit and capacity. 
W. K. Greg, Misc. Essays, 2d ser., p. 41. 
8. In law, taint ; impurity or defect (of herit- 
able blood) in consequence of an act of attain- 
der of treason or felony, by which a person is 
disabled from inheriting lands from an ancestor, 
and can neither retain those in his possession 
nor transmit them by descent to his heirs. This 
penalty, along with attainder itself, has been abolished in 
Great Britain, and never existed in the United States. 
It is to be hoped that this corruption of blood . . . may, 
in process of time, be abolished by act of Parliament. 
Blackstone, Com., IV. 389 (Harper, 1852). 
No attainder of treason shall work con-nfifiiui of blood. 
Cant. U. S., iii. a 
= Syn. 1. Putrefaction, putrescence. 4. Pollution, de. 
lIliMiH-nt, contamination, vitiation, demoralization, foul- 
ness, baseness. 
