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turn' from a found to a putrefcent date ; to infedf. To 
deprave ; to dedroy integrity ; to vitiate ; to bribe ; to 
ip oil ; to do mifchief.—Evil communications corrupt 
good manners, i Corinthians, xv. 33.—Language being the 
conduit whereby men convey their knowledge, he that 
makes an ill uie of it, though he does not corrupt the 
fountains of knowledge, which are in things, yet he flops 
the pipes. Locke. 
Hear the black trumpet throLfhe world proclaim, 
That not to be corrupted is the fhame. Pope. 
To CORRU'PT, v. n. To become putrid; to grow 
rotten ; to putrefy ; to lofe purity.—The aptnefs or pro- 
penfion of air or water to corrupt or putrefy, no doubt, is 
to be found before it break forth into manifefl effects of 
difeafes, blading, or the like. Bacon. 
CORRIEPT, adj. Spoiled ; tainted ; vitiated in its 
qualities.—Coarfe hoary moulded bread the foldiers thruft 
upon the points of their fpears, railing againd Ferdinand, 
who with fuch corrupt and peftilent bread would feed 
them. Knollcs. —Unfound; putrid. Often accented corrupt ; 
As fuperfluous fleffi did rot, 
Amendment ready dill at hand did wait. 
To pluck it out with pincers fiery hot. 
That foon in him was.left no corrupt] ot. Spcnfer. 
Vitious; tainted with wickednefs; without integrity.— 
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, 
but that which is good to the ufe of edifying. Ep/nfians, 
iv. 29.— Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in defire. Shakefp. 
Thefe kind of knaves I know, which in this plainnefs 
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends, 
Than twenty filky ducking obfervants. Shakefpeare. 
CORRUPT'ER,yi He that taints or vitiates ; he that 
lelfens purity or integrity.—Away, away, corrupters of my 
faith ! Shakefpeare.— Thofe great corrupters of Chridianity, 
and indeed of natural religion, the Jefuits. AddiJ'on. 
CORRUPT'FUL, adj. Corrupting.—And with cor¬ 
ruptful brybes is to untruth mif-trayned. Spcnfer. 
CORRUPTIBI'LITY,yi Podibility to be corrupted. 
CORRUP'TIBLE, adj. Sufceptible of deftrudtion by 
natural decay, or without violence.'—'Our corruptible bo¬ 
dies could never live the life they fhall live, were it not 
that they are joined with this body which is incorrupti¬ 
ble, and that his is in ours as a caufe of immortality. 
Hooker. —Sufceptible of external depravation ; podible to 
be tainted or vitiated. 
CORRUP'TIBLENESS,/. Sufceptibility of corrup¬ 
tion. 
CORRUP'TIBLY, adv. In fuch a manner as to be 
corrupted, or vitiated: 
It is too late ; the life of all his blood 
2 s touch’d corruptibly. Shakefpeare. 
CORRUP'TTON, f. [corruptio, Lat.] The principle 
by which bodies tend to the reparation of their parts. 
Yvhckednefs ; perverdon of principles ; lofs of integrity: 
Amidd corruption, luxury, and rage, 
Still leave fome ancient virtues to our age. Pope. 
Putrefcence : 
The wife contriver, on his end intent, 
Careful this fatal error to prevent, 
And keep the waters from corruption free, 
Mix’d them with fait, and feafon’d all the fea. Blachmore. 
Matter or pus in a fore. The tendency to a worfe date : 
After my death I wiffi no other herald* 
No other fpeaker of my living adtions, 
To keep mine honour from corruption, 
But fuch an honed chronicler as Griffith. Shakefpeare. 
Caufe, Or means, of deprivation.'—The region hath by 
conqued, and corruption of languages, received new and 
different-names.. Raleigh. 
CORRUPTION of BLOOD, f. inlaw, is where a 
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perfon is attainted of treafon or felony, by means-whereof 
his blood is laid to be corrupted, and neither his chil¬ 
dren,, nor any of his idue, can be heirs to him or any 
other ancedor: alfo if he is of the nobility, or a gentle¬ 
man, he and all his poderity by the attainder are rendered 
bafe and ignoble : but by the pardon of the king, the 
children born afterwards may inherit the land of their 
ancedor, parchafed at the time of the pardon or after.; 
but fo cannot they, who were born before the pardon. 
Terms de Ley. If a man that hath land in right of his 
wife hath ilfue, and his blood is corrupt by attainder of 
felony, and the king pardons him 5 in this cafe, if the 
wife dies before him, lie diall not be tenant by the cur- 
tefy, for the corruption of the blood of that ilfue : 
though it is otherwise, if he hath ilfue after the pardon ; 
for then he ffiould be tenant by the curtefy, although 
the ilfue which he had before the pardon be not inhe¬ 
ritable. 13 Hen. VII. c. 17. A fon attainted of treafon 
or felony in the life of his anceftor, obtains the king’s 
pardon before the death of his ancedor, lie diall not be 
heir to the faid ancedor, but the land diall rather efeheat 
to the lord of the fee by the corruption of blood. 32 
Hen. VIII. If the father of a perfon attainted die feifed 
of an edate of inheritance, during his life, no younger 
brother can be heir; for the elder brother, though at¬ 
tainted, is dill a brother, and no other can be heir to his 
father, while he is alive ; but if he die before the father, 
the younger brother diall be heir. 2 Hawk.P.C. c. 49. Cm 
Lit. 8. 391. 
Corruption of blood from an attainder is fo high, that 
it cannot be abfolutely falved but by adt of parliament ; 
for the king’s pardon doth not redore the blood fo as to 
make the perfon attainted capable either of inheriting 
others, or being inherited himfelf by any one born before 
the pardon. 1 Inf. 391. A datute which faves the cor¬ 
ruption of blood, impliedly faves the defeent of the land 
to the heir; and it prevents the corruption of blood fo 
far: alfo it faves the wife’s dower. But neverthdlefs 
the land fhall be forfeited for the life of the offender. 
3 A/?. 47. 1 Hawk. P:C. c. 41. 
CORRUP'TIVE, adj. Having the quality of tainting 
or vitiating.—Carrying a fettled habitude unto the cor¬ 
ruptive originals. Brown .-— It diould be endued with an 
acid ferment, or fome corruptive quality, for fo fpeedy a 
diffolution of the meat and preparation of the chyle. Ray . 
CORRUPT'LESS, adj. Infufceptible of corruption; 
undecaying: 
All around 
The borders with corruptlefs myrrh are crown’d. Dry den. 
CORRUPT'LY, adv. With corruption; with taint; 
with vice ; without integrity.—-We have dealt very cor¬ 
ruptly againd thee, and have not kept the commandments- 
Nchcmiak, i. 7, 
O that edates, degrees, and offices. 
Were not deriv’d corruptly! that clear honour 
Were purchas’d by the merit of the wearer. Shakefpeare . 
Vitioufly ; impi-operly ; contrary to purity.—We have 
corruptly contracted mod names, both of men and places. 
Camden. 
CORRUPTNESS,^ The quality of corruption; pu¬ 
trefcence ; vice. 
COR'SAIR,_/i A perfon who infeds the Teas, as an 
highwayman does the roads, with a velfel armed to plun¬ 
der merchant fhips. The word comes from the Italian 
cofare, of corfo, or a curfbus, by reafon of their courfes, 
or excurlions. The name, is commonly applied to the 
piratical cruifers of Barbary, who had their rife about 
the beginning of the fixteenth'century, A corfair is dif- 
tinguifhed from a privateer in this, that the latter adts 
under a commiffion, and only attacks the veffels of thofe 
at war with the date w T hence his commiffion is derived. . 
CORSA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Otranto; three miles ead cf Alelfano. 
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