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

The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.

Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.

Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.

Incorrigible; not capable of correction. [Obs.]

Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

Corrigible; amendable. [R.] Bailey.

ous*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious-ness, n. He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible habit, of desultory reading. De Quincey.

The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.

In an incorrigible manner.

Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible. Joseph Cook.

One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal. -- Re*cid`i*vis"tic (#), a.

s, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.

o has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.

lace to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.

ou be windowed in great Rome and see Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down His corrigible neck Shak.