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Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.

Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

Incorrupt.

Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i. 23.

Incorruption.

A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. "So would I a done" "A brushes his hat." Shak.

sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs,…

A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Abuse after disappeared without a struggle.. Macaulay.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

A corruption of Agitator.

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

d been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]