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incorruptible, a. (n.)|ɪnkəˈrʌptɪb(ə)l|
[a. F. incorruptible (Oresme 14th c.) or ad. late L. incorruptibilis (Tertullian), f. in- (in-3) + corruptibilis corruptible.]
1. Incapable of undergoing physical corruption; that cannot decay or perish; everlasting, eternal.
a1340Hampole Psalter xci. 12 He sall be incoruptibil..in heuen. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xiii. (1495) 56 The resonable soule is euerlastynge incorruptyble and may not dey. 1526Tindale 1 Cor. xv. 52 The trompe shall blowe and the deed shall ryse incorruptible. 1555Eden Decades 334 margin, Golde is incorruptible. 1651J. Goodwin Redempt. Redeemed iv. §31. 64 Though all the individuals of a species be corruptible..yet the species it self remaines incorruptible. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1834) 91 Beds of incorruptible cedar. 1830Tennyson Deserted House v, Life and Thought..in a city glorious..have bought A mansion incorruptible. 1886Sidgwick Hist. Ethics ii. 86 The blessed and incorruptible has no troubles of its own, and causes none to others.
2. Incapable of being morally corrupted; that cannot be perverted or bribed.
1667Milton P.L. ix. 298 Suppos'd Not incorruptible of Faith, not prooff Against temptation. a1704T. Brown Praise Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 101 Incorruptible abstinence and honesty. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) VIII. xix. v. 163 Invincible and incorruptible by money. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. ii. v, Till all the Convention..had almost indicted the Incorruptible there on the spot. Ibid. v. v, Robespierre himself..opens his incorruptible lips copiously in the Jacobins Hall. 1870Dickens E. Drood ix, A man of incorruptible integrity.
3. as n. (pl.) An ancient Christian sect, the Aphthartodocetæ, who maintained the incorruptibility of the body of Jesus Christ.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Incorruptibles, incorruptibiles, the name of a sect which sprang out of the Eutychians. Their distinguishing tenet was, That the body of Jesus Christ was incorruptible. 1853M. Kelly tr. Gosselin's Pope Mid. Ages I. 89 The edict of Justinian in favour of the sect called the Incorruptibles. |