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Webster 1913 Edition


Corruptive

Cor-rupt′ive

(k?r-r?p′t?v)
,
Adj.
[L.
corruptivus
: cf. F.
corruptif
.]
Having the quality of tainting or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
It should be endued with some
corruptive
quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat.
Ray.

Webster 1828 Edition


Corruptive

CORRUPTIVE

,
Adj.
Having the quality of corrupting, tainting or vitiating.
It should be endued with some corruptive quality.

Definition 2024


corruptive

corruptive

English

Adjective

corruptive (comparative more corruptive, superlative most corruptive)

  1. Tending to corrupt.
    • 2007 January 28, Dorothy Samuels, “The George W. Bush Library: Scholarly Mecca or $500 Million Oxymoron?”, in New York Times:
      Following the corruptive path blazed by White House predecessors, Mr. Bush and members of his library committee apparently plan to spend the administration’s remaining days trying to coax huge contributions to the budding library complex from friends and well-heeled special interests.

Derived terms


Latin

Adjective

corruptīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of corruptīvus