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bribes; upright; honest. Milton. Your Christian principles . . . which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals. Bp. Hurd.

Uncorrupted. [Obs.] Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.

The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.

Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.

In an incorruptible manner.

The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. 42. The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.

Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.

Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible. Dryden.

olive branch and laurel crown." Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptiblle. 1 Cor. ix. 25. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. ii. 10.

blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. i. 4.

n a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, . . . the dead shall be raised incorruptible. 1 Cor. xv. 52.

Incorrupt.

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

Incorruption.