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corrigible, a.|ˈkɒrɪdʒɪb(ə)l|
Also 5 corrigabill, 7 corrigeable.
[a. F. corrigible (in OF. corrig(e)able), ad. L. *corrigibilis (cf. incorrigibilis), f. corrigĕre to correct: see -ble.]
1. Capable of being corrected; rectifiable.
1483in Eng. Gilds 337 Provided allway, that..ony of the said articlis..be reformabyll and corrigabill by the Mayre, Bailiffs, and the comen counsayle of the citee. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 244 A skilful artist, who..knows how to correct things corrigible. 1806Abernethy Surg. Obs. ii. 52 The disorders of the digestive organs are more corrigible by medical remedies. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxxi. X. 618 A vote which is understood to be final and never afterwards to be corrigible.
2. Of faults, weaknesses, etc.: Capable of being amended; capable of improvement or reformation.
1673Lady's Call. i. §1. 5 The infirmity for the most part proves very corrigible. 1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo I. 52 Both these Passions, as well that of Bashfulness, as Commiseration are corrigible. 1820Examiner No. 614. 34/1 Despotism was a thing corrigible by experience. 1833O'Connell Corr. (1888) I. 332 The other abuses will be easily corrigible.
3. Of persons, their dispositions, etc.: Open or submissive to correction.
1583Babington Commandm. iii. (1637) 28 If hee be corrigible, not euen in the Lords cause should I curse my brother. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xiv. 74 Bending downe His corrigible necke. 1662Petty Taxes 56 Such..punishments have made some corrigible offenders to become desperate and incurable. 1776Johnson in Boswell (1887) III. 62 He has not dragged into light a bashful and corrigible sinner. 1864G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 23 Nov., In public they are meek and corrigible.
†4. Liable to or deserving chastisement or punishment. Obs.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed. III. 1347/2 If anie prince fell into anie such kind of error, that prince were corrigible, but of whome? 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 196 He was taken up very short, and adjudgd corrigible for such presumptuous language. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. v. §1 Our inclinations averse and corrigible.
†5. Having the faculty of correcting; corrective.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i, Do I not bear a reasonable corrigible hand over him, Crispinus? 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 329 The power, and Corrigeable authoritie of this lies in our Wills.
Hence ˌcorrigiˈbility, ˈcorrigibleness, ˈcorrigibly adv.
1765Misc. in Ann. Reg. 213/1 The corrigibility of a bad soil. 1846De Quincey Chr. as Organ of Polit. Movem. Wks. XII. 264 Whatever was good or corrigibly bad, man saw associated with weakness. |