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A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore. Shak.

Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.] An hundred cubits high by just assize. Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, assise.]

son or felony; to affect by attainder. No person shall be attainted of high treason where corruption of blood is incurred, but by the oath of two witnesses. Stat. 7 & 8 Wm. III.

To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate. [Obs.] Blount.

Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore. [Obs.] Holland.

Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt. Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.

; pl. Bass, and sometimes Basses. Etym: [A corruption of barse.] (Zoöl.)

Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv.

outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.

To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay.

To spoil; to corrupt. Wright.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.

To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser.

a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. -- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass. -- Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garte…

Corrupted form Bolt.

price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to prevent the judgment or corrupt the conduct of a judge, witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe. Hobart.

One who bribes, or pays for corrupt practices.

g or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements. Bribery oath, an oath taken by a person that he has not been bribed as to voting. [Eng.]