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CORRUPT, v.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, a. [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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CORRUPT, v.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, a. [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.

COR-RUPT', a. [L. corruptus; It. corrotto.]

  1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state, as by natural decomposition.
  2. Spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound; as, corrupt air, or bread. – Knolles.
  3. Depraved; vitiated; tainted with wickedness. They are corrupt; they have done abominable works. – Ps xiv. The earth was corrupt before God. – Gen. vi.
  4. Debased; rendered impure; changed to a worse state; as, corrupt language.
  5. Not genuine; infected with errors or mistakes. The text is corrupt.

COR-RUPT', 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.

COR-RUPT', v.t. [L. corruptus, from corrumpo, con and rumpo, for rupo, to break; Fr. corrompre; It. corrompere; Sp. corromper. Class Rb. 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 is accompanied by a fetid smell.
  2. To vitiate or deprave; to change from good to bad. Evil communications corrupt good manners. – 1 Cor. xv.
  3. To waste, spoil or consume. Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. – Matth. vi.
  4. To defile or pollute. – Ex. xxxii.
  5. To entice from good and allure to evil. – 2 Cor. xi.
  6. To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. – Mal. ii.
  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.

Cor*rupt`
  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. To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state] to make putrid; to putrefy.
  3. To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

    Bacon.
  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. To become vitiated; to lose purity or goodness.
  7. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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Corrupt

CORRUPT, verb transitive [Latin , 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 15:33.

3. To waste, spoil or consume.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt Matthew 6:19.

4. To defile or pollute. Exodus 32:7.

5. To entice from good and allure to evil. 2 Corinthians 11:3.

6. To pervert; to break, disobey or make void. Malachi 2:3.

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, verb intransitive

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, adjective [Latin]

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. Psalms 14:1.

The earth was corrupt before God. Genesis 6:11.

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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1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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