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Corrupt

Corrupt (corrupt)
a.(k?r-r?pt")
Cor*rupt`
[L. corruptus, p. p. of corrumpere to corrupt; cor- + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]
  1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

    Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
    Knolles.

  2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

    At what ease
    Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt
    To swear against you.
    Shak.

  3. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

Corrupt

Corrupt (corrupt)
v. t.
Cor*rupt"
  1. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state] to make putrid; to putrefy.
  2. To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

    Evil communications corrupt good manners.
    1. Cor. xv. 33.

  3. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

    Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge
    That no king can corrupt.
    Shak.

  4. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

    He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines.
    Locke.

  5. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

    Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
    Matt. vi. 19.

Corrupt

Corrupt (corrupt)
v. i.(k?r-r?pt")
Cor*rupt"
  1. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
    Bacon.
  2. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.












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