† coˈrrumpable, a. Obs.
Also 5 corromp-.
[a. OF. co(r)rumpable, corrompable, f. corrompre corrump: see -able.]
= corruptible.
| c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2149 Of a thyng that parfit is and stable Descendynge so til it be corrumpable [v.r. corumpable.]. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas vi. xv. (1554) 163 a, Of soule eternall, of body corumpable. 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xiii. xvii, That whyche was mortal and corrompable. 1483 ― Gold. Leg. 258/2 Be not thou wrothe to leue the world corrumpable with his couetyses. |