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To ravish; to debauch. Burton.

CONSTUPRATION n.

The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.

CONTORTUPLICATE a.

Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.

njury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.

CORRUPT a. 10 definitions

ed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.

Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. [Obs.] "Corruptful bribes." Spenser.

CORRUPTIBILITY n.

The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.

CORRUPTIBLE a. 3 definitions

Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18.

CORRUPTINGLY adv.

In a manner that corrupts.

CORRUPTION n. 4 definitions

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.…

CORRUPTIONIST n.

One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.

Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.

Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible. Dryden.

In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.

The quality of being corrupt.

A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl.

A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

r stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force. Coup de grace (ke gr Etym: [F.], the stroke of mercy with which an executioner ends by death the sufferings of the condemned; hence, a decisive, finishing stroke. -- Coup de main (ke m Etym: [F.] (Mil.), a sudden and unexpected mov…

Culpable. [Obs.]