CORRIGIBLE

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.

2.
a.

Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck." Shak.

3.
a.

Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.

4.
a.

Having power to correct; corrective. [Obs.] The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak.