corruptive, a. (n.)
(kəˈrʌptɪv)
[ad. L. corruptīv-us liable to corruption (Tertull.), or a. F. corruptif, -ive (14th c.), f. stem of L. corrumpĕre: see -ive.]
† 1. Subject or liable to corruption. Obs.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 180 That wee may receiue no corruptiue inheritance. 1683 Tryon Way to Health 84 Salt..does tye or hold the corruptive parts of the Flesh captive, that they cannot proceed to Putrifaction. 1691 Ray Creation ii. (1704) 233 Some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the Meat. |
2. That has the quality of corrupting; that tends to corrupt.
| 1609 R. Armin Ital. Taylor I ij b, To out-rime thy ill-reason'd cloze In thy corruptive prayse. 1640 Reynolds Passions iii. 16 Such a temper of Minde..is corruptive to the Memorie. a 1691 Boyle Hist. Air xii. (1692) 65 Lightning is not always destructive or corruptive of Vegetables. 1737 Whiston Josephus' Hist. iv. viii. §3 This fountain..was entirely of a sickly and corruptive nature. 1817 Bentham Ch. Eng. 332. 1884 F. Peek in Contemp. Rev. July 75 The association of the first offenders with the old and irreclaimable convicts is fatally corruptive. |
† B. n. A thing that tends to corrupt. Obs.
| 1641 Ld. Digby in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 228 Of all these Corruptives of Judgment..I do, before God, discharge my self. |
Hence coˈrruptively adv., in a corruptive manner.
| 1653 F. G. tr. Scudery's Artamenes viii. ii. (1655) 121 Forming that name out of two Greek words corruptively put together. 1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions (1862) 81 Corruptively derived from Primitive Patriarchal Tradition. |