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Show 2. Unfound ; putrid Amendmen 3 ready ftill at hand did wait T'o pluck it out with pincers fiery hot ‘That foon in him was left no corrupt jot Vitious ; tainte without integrity Let n vou wit Spenfer wickednefs mouth, but that which is good to the ufe o edifying Epbefians, ive 2.9 Corrupty corrupt, and tainted in defire. Shakefp Thef kind of knaves I know, which in thi plainnef Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends Than twenty filky ducking obfervants Shakefpeare's King Lear bee corrupt in their morals have yet been infinitely folicitous to have thei South's Sermons children pioufly brought up 7. /. [from corrupr. CorrU'PTER tha taint o vitiates H he that leflen purity or integrity Away, away, corrupters of my faith! = Shakefp From the vanity of the Greeks, the corrupter of all truth, who without all ground of certaint vaunt their antiquity, came the errour firft of all Rualeigh's Hiftory of the World Thofe great corrupters of Chriftianity, and inAddifon deed of natural religion, the Jefuits CorruPTIBI'LITY. 7. /. [from corruptible.] Poffibility to be corrupted CorRrRUPTIBLE. adj. [from corrupt. 1. Sufceptible of deftruttion by natura decay, or without violence Our corruptible bodies could never live the lif they (hall live, were it not that they are joine with his body which is incorruptible is in ours as a caufe of immortality and that hi Hooker Itis a devouring corruption of the effential mixture, which, confifting chiefly of an oily moifture is corruptible through diffipation Harvey on Confumption' The feveral parts of which the world confift being in their nature corruptible, it is more tha probable, that, in an infinite duration, this fram of things would long fince have been diffolved Tillotfon Sufceptible of external depravation poflible to be tainted or vitiated CorRRUPTIBLENESS. # /. [from corrupSufceptibility of corruption #i6le. CorrUPTIBLY. adv. [from corruptible. In fuch a manner as to be corrupted, o vitiated 2 1t is too late; the life of all his bloo Ts touch'd corruptibly Shakefpeare's King Lear Corru'pTI0ON. 7. . [corruptio, Latin. 1. The principle by which bodies tend t the feparation of their parts 2. Wickednefls ; perverfion of principles lofs of integrity Precepts of morality, befides the natural corryption of our tempers, which makes us averfe t them, are fo abfiraéted from ideas of fenfe, tha they feldom get an opportunity for defcriptions an images Addifon on the Georgicks Amidft corruption, luxury, and rage Still leave fome ancient virtues to our age. Pope To keep mine honour from corruption The region hath by conqueft, and corruption o other languages, received new and differing names Careful this fatal errour to prevent keep the waters from corruption free Mix'd them with falt, and feafon'd all the fea 4. Matter or pus in a fore 5. The tendency to a worfe flate language thei A infeftion growing to to his iflue; for as he lofeth all to th lor of the fee, {o hi iflue cannot be heir to him, or to an other anceftor, of whom they might hav claimed by him ; and if he were noble or a gentleman he and his children ar made ignoble and ungentle, in refpec Cowell of the father CorrU'PTIVE. adj. [from corrupt.] Having the quality of tainting or vitiating Carrying a fettled habitude unto the corruptiv Brown's Vulgar Errours originals wit It thould be endue an acid ferment o fome corruptive quality, for fo fpeedy a diffolutio of the meat and preparation of the chyle Ray on the Creation CorrU'PTLESS. adj. [from corrupt.] In{ufceptible of corruption ; undecaying All aroun The borders with corruptle/s myrrh are crown'd Dryden Corru'pTLY. adv. [from corrupt. 1. With corruption ; with taint ; wit vice ; without integrity that eftates, degrees, and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly ! that clear honou Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer. Shak We have dealt very corruptly againft thee, an have not kept the commandments. Nebemiab, is 7 z. Vitioufly purity contrar improperly We have corruptly contradte of men and placss t moft names, bot Camden's Remains CorRrU'PTNESS. z. /. [from corrupt.] Th quality of corruption ; putrefcence ; vice A pirate CO'RSAIR. #. /. [French. one who profefles to fcour the fea, an feize merchants CoRSE. 7. /. [corps, French. Not in ufe 1. A body For he was ftrong, and of fo mighty corfe Spenfer As ever wielded fpear in warlike hand dea 2. body Blackmore a carcafe word a poetica That from her body, full of filthy fin He reft her hateful head, without remorfe A ftream of coal-black blood forth gufhed fro Spenfer her corfe Set down the corfe5 or, by faint Paul 1'1l make a corfe of him that difobeys Shake[peare's Richard 111 ‘What may this mean That thou, dead corfe, again in complete ftee Revifit'ft thus the glimpfes of the moon Shake[peare's Hamlet Making night hideous Here Jay him down, m friends Co'RsELET. n. [ [corfelet, French. light armour for the forepart of th body Some fhirts of maile, fome coats of plate put on Sente don'd a cuirace, fome a ¢orflet brighte Fairf Againft their very corfelets beat 198 Pri Brerewood on Languages man attainted of felony, or treafon, an prince, or othe The firings of which, in battle's heat, thefe little glands together make the cortigyy ar reafon for whic Greek tongue is become much altered 7. [Inlaw. th Raleigh's Hiffory All thofe four kinds of corruption are very comi hig} eme ext hun Have their heart p' adj. [cortex, bark, Lat pa out th t Barky ; belongin belonging to the rind ; outward Th The bloody corfe, and count thofe glorious wounds Addifon The wife contriver, on his end intent But heroes, wHoo'ercome or die But fuch an honeft chronicler as Griffith Shakefpeare's Henry VIIL Full in my fight, that I may view at leifur 3. Putrefcence An Their co/flm', and thei; thgxf:aefiga:g‘gpm No other fpeaker of my living aétions mo corrupt communication proceed out o Some, who hav After my death I wifh no other herald 6. Caufe, or means, of depravation As fuperfluous flefh did rot Ru fThey Iafhy they Foirsehieyafis CORTICAL i laft extremities for a little gland (all of the brain), terminating in two little veffels Cheyne's Philofopbica Primz'p/es Co'RTICATED. adj. [from corticatys, [,, tin.] Refembling the bark of a tree This animal is a kind of lizard, a quadr pe corticated and depilous ; thatis, without wool, fur or hair Co'rT1COSE. adj. [from corticofus, I_r,o::"'] Dig Full of bark Corve'rro. 2 /. The curvet Yo muft draw the horfe i his career wit his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto and leap ing Peacham on Dram"g Latin. [corufeo adj CORU'SCANT Glittering by flathes ; flathing Corusca'TION. 7. /. [corufeatio, Latin. Flafh ; quick vibration of light We fee that lightnings and corufcations, whic are near at hand, yield no found Bacor's Natural Hiftorg ‘We may learn that fulphureous fteams aboun in the bowels of the earth, and ferment with minerals, and fometimes take fire with a fudde Neavton's Opticks cornfeation and explofion How heat and moifture mingle in a mafs Or belch in thunder, or in lightning blaze Why nimble corufcations firike the eye And bold tornados blufter in the fky Garth's Difpenfutory CorY'MEBIATED. adj. [corymbus, Latin. Garnithed with branches of berries Did CoryMEI'FEROUS. adj. [ from corymbu and fero, Lat.] Bearing fruit or berrie in bunches Coarfe hoary moulded bread the foldiers thruf upon the points of their fpears, railing againf Ferdinand, who with fuch corrupt and peftilen bread would feed them Knolles Ci Corymbiferous plants are diftingyifhed into fuc as hav fuc a radiat as hav flower, as the fun-flower; an a nake flower as the hemp-agri mony, and mugwort: to which are added.t_hof a-kin hereunto, fuch as fcabious, teafel, thifle Quincy and the like CORY'MBUS n / [Latin. Among(t the ancient botanifts, it was ufed to exprefs the bunches or clufters of berries of isy among®t modern- botanifts, it is ufed fora com pounded difcous flower, whofe feeds are not pappous, or do not fly away in down; fuchare th flowers of daifies, and common marygold ngtj Coscr'NomaNcy. 7. /. [from xoouivor, fieve, and pasreia, divination.] The ar of divination by means of a fieve. ver ancien pratice mentioned b Theocritus, and ftill ufed in {fome part out perfons unChambers ( [In geometry.] Th which is the completo ninety degrees Harris Co'sueriNG. 7 /. [Irifh. of England, t known Cose'canT. #. / fecant of an arch ment of anothe fin Cofberings were vifitations and progrefies m"‘d‘ by the lord and his follower amon h!s tenantsl, wherein he did eat them (as the Englifh prove is) out of houfe and home Dawirs Co's1ER. 7 /. [from coufer, old French l{flm‘{'; to few.] A botcher Do you make an alchoufe of my lady's h°3}a =ST € OI |