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Webster 1913 Edition

Corrupt

Cor-ruptˊ

(k?r-r?pt′)
,
Adj.
[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.
Shakespeare
3.
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct;
as, the text of the manuscript is
corrupt
.

Cor-rupt′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Corrupted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Corrupting
.]
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
.
Shakespeare
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.

Cor-rupt′

(k?r-r?pt′)
,
Verb.
I.
1.
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
Bacon.
2.
To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.

Webster 1828 Edition

Corrupt

CORRUPT

,
Verb.
T.
[L., to break.] Literally, to break, separate or dissolve. Hence,
1.
To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to separate the component parts of a body, as by a natural process, which accompanied by a fetid smell.
2.
To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Corinthians 15.
3.
To waste, spoil or consume.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matthew 6.
4.
To defile or pollute. Exodus 32.
5.
To entice from good and allure to evil. 2 Corinthians 11.
6.
To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. Malachi 2.
7.
To pervert or vitiate integrity; to bribe; as, to corrupt a judge.
8.
To debase or render impure, by alterations or innovations; as, to corrupt language.
9.
To pervert; to falsify; to infect with errors; as, to corrupt the sacred text.

CORRUPT

, v.i.
1.
To become putrid; to putrefy; to rot. Animal and vegetable substances speedily corrupt in a warm and moist air.
2.
To become vitiated; to lose purity.

CORRUPT

,
Adj.
[L.]
1.
Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition.
2.
Spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound; as corrupt air, or bread.
3.
Depraved; vitiated; tainted with wickedness.
They are corrupt; they have done abominable works. Psalm 14.
The earth was corrupt before God. Genesis 6.
4.
Debased; rendered impure; changed to a worse state; as corrupt language.
5.
Not genuine; infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt.

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