Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 130
Correligionist (n.) [C] 同教派者，信奉同一宗教的人 A variant spelling of coreligionist.
Correligionist (n.) A co-religionist.
Compare: Coreligionist
Coreligionist (n.) (I n British) (O r correligionist ) An adherent of the same religion as another.
Correption (n.) Chiding; reproof; reproach. [Obs.]
Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. -- Hammond.
Corresponded (imp. & p. p.) of Correspond.
Corresponding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Correspond.
Correspond (v. i.) 符合，一致 [（+to/ with）]；相當，相應 [（+to）]；通信 [（+with）] To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.
None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. -- J. A. Symonds.
Correspond (v. i.) To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.
Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. -- Locke.
Correspond (v. i.) To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.
After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. -- Macaulay.
Syn: To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.
Correspond (v.) Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: {match}, {fit}, {correspond}, {check}, {jibe}, {gibe}, {tally}, {agree}] [ant: {disaccord}, {disagree}, {discord}].
Correspond (v.) Be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics [syn: {equate}, {correspond}].
Correspond (v.) Exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years".
Correspond (v.) Take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to; "Because of the sound changes in the course of history, an 'h' in Greek stands for an 's' in Latin" [syn: {represent}, {stand for}, {correspond}].
Correspondence (n.) 對應，一致，符合；通信，信函，信件 Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. -- Bacon.
To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. -- Macaulay.
Correspondence (n.) The letters which pass between correspondents.
Correspondence (n.) Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.
Correspondence (n.) Communication by the exchange of letters.
Correspondence (n.) Compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence" [syn: agreement, correspondence].
Correspondence (n.) The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount [syn: commensurateness, correspondence, proportionateness].
Correspondence (n.) (Mathematics) An attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane [syn: symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence, balance] [ant: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance].
Correspondence (n.) Similarity by virtue of corresponding [syn: parallelism, correspondence].
Correspondence, () The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make what is called the correspondence of the parties.
Correspondence, () In general, the correspondence of the parties contains the best evidence of the facts to which it relates. See Letter, contracts; Proposal.
Correspondence, () When an offer to contract is made by letter, it must be accepted unconditionally for if the precise terms are changed, even in the slightest degree, there is no contract. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 904. See, as to the power of revoking an offer made by letter, 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 933.
Correspondencies (n. pl. ) of Correspondency
Correspondency (n.) Same as {Correspondence}, 3.
The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. -- S. Clarke.
Correspondent (n.) [C] 對應物；通訊記者；特派員 One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. -- Macaulay.
Correspondent (n.) One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
Correspondent (n.) (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.
Correspondent (a.) 符合的，一致的 [（+with）] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. -- Hooker.
As fast the correspondent passions rise. -- Thomson.
I will be correspondent to command. -- Shak.
Correspondent (a.) Similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar" [syn: analogous, correspondent].
Correspondent (n.) Someone who communicates by means of letters [syn: correspondent, letter writer].
Correspondent (n.) A journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman].
Correspondent (n.) [ C ] (Reporter) 通訊員，記者 A person employed by a newspaper, a television station, etc. to report on a particular subject or send reports from a foreign country.
// A war correspondent.
The education correspondent for the Guardian.
Correspondent (n.) [ C ] (Letter writer) 通信者，寫信人 (Formal) Someone who writes letters.
// I'm a terrible correspondent - I never seem to get the time to write.
Correspondently (adv.) In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
Compare: Conformably
Conformably (adv.) 一致地；順從地 See Conformable.
‘The ‘platy limestone’ unit overlies, apparently conformably, a cliff-forming unit of interbedded limestone and chert with occasional flat-pebble conglomerates.’
Compare: Conformable
Conformable (a.) (usually Conformable to) (Of a person) 順應的（常與to連用）；一致的；服從的 Disposed or accustomed to conform to what is acceptable or expected.
‘Personalities conformable to the ambient level of cultural evolution.’
Conformable (a.) Similar in form or nature; consistent.
‘This proposition might be conformable to the original conjecture.’
Conformable (a.) (Geology) (Of strata in contact) Deposited in a continuous sequence, and having the same direction of stratification.
‘After this, a process of denudation forms a thick sequence of overlying conformable clastic deposits, which contain large amounts of heavy minerals in low concentrations.’
Compare: Suitably
Suitably (adv.) 適當地；相配地 In a way that is right or appropriate for a particular purpose or situation.
‘Dress suitably for the hot weather.’
Suitably (adv.) [As submodifier] To a degree that is expected or appropriate in the circumstances.
‘The judges were suitably impressed.’
Corresponding (a.) 符合的；一致的；相同的；對應的；相當的；【數】同位的，對應的；通信的；correspond 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.
Corresponding (a.) Carrying on intercourse by letters.
Corresponding member of a society, One residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.
Corresponding (a.) Accompanying; "all rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities".
Corresponding (a.) Similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points".
Corresponding (a.) Conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year" [syn: comparable, corresponding, like].
Correspondingly (adv.) 相應地；相同地；相關地 In a corresponding manner; conformably.
Correspondingly (adv.) In a corresponding manner; "the temperature decreases correspondingly".
Corresponsive (a.) 【罕】相應的；呼應的 Corresponding; conformable; adapted. -- Shak. -- Cor`re*spon"sive*ly, adv.
Corridor (n.) [C] (Arch.) 走廊，迴廊，通道；狹長通道；空中走廊 A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
Corridor (n.) (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [R.]
Corridor (n.) Any relatively narrow passageway or route, such as a strip of land through a foreign territory.
Corridor (n.) A densely populated stretch of land; as, the Northeast corridor, extending from Richmond, Virginia into Maine.
Corridor (n.) An enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it.
Corrie (n.) Same as Correi. [Scot.] -- Geikie.
Corrie (n.) 【蘇格蘭】山腰的窪地；【地】冰斗 A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm].
Corrigenda (n. pl. ) of Corrigendum.
Corrigenda (n. pl. ) A list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections; as, an insert with addenda and corrigenda.
Corrigendum (n.) [L.] （應更正的）錯誤；（常複數）正誤表；勘誤表 A fault or error to be corrected.
Corrigendum (n.) [L.] A correction of an error, especially in a printed document.
Corrigendum (n.) A printer's error; to be corrected.
Corrigenda (n.) A list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections.
Corrigent (n.) (Med.) A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. -- Dunglison.
Corrigibility (n.) 可訂正；順從 Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
Corrigible (a.) 可改正的；有待修正的 Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
Corrigible (a.) Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck." -- Shak.
Corrigible (a.) Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.]
He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. -- Howell.
Corrigible (a.) Having power to correct; corrective. [Obs.]
The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. -- Shak.
Corrigible (a.) Capable of being corrected or set right; "a corrigible defect"; "a corrigible prisoner" [ant: incorrigible].
Corrigible (a.) 可改正的；可訂正的；易矯正的；可矯正的 Capable of being set right : Reparable.
// A corrigible defect.
Corrigibleness (n.) The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.
Corrival (n.) 競爭的對手 A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. [R.] -- Shak.
Corrival (a.) 競爭的 Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [R.] -- Bp. Fleetwood.
Corrival (v. i. & t.) To compete with; to rival. [R.]
Corrivalry (n.) Corivalry. [R.]
Corrivalship (n.) Corivalry. [R.]
By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Corrivate (v. t.) To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Corrivation (n.) The flowing of different streams into one. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Corroborant (a.) 【古】確證的；補身的 Strengthening; supporting; corroborating. -- Bacon. -- n.
Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.
The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music. -- Southey.
Corroborant (n.) 【古】確證的事實；補劑 Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.
The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odors and with music. -- Southey.
Corroborant (a.) Used of a medicine that is strengthening.
Corroborated (imp. & p. p.) of Corroborate.
Corroborating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corroborate.
Corroborate (v. t.) 證實，確證；鞏固；堅定 To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. [Obs.]
As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby. -- I. Watts.
Corroborate (v. t.) To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.
The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth. -- I. Taylor.
Corroborate (a.) Corroborated. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Corroborate (v.) Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate].
Corroborate (v.) Give evidence for [syn: validate, corroborate]
Corroborate (v.) Support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence" [syn: corroborate, underpin, bear out, support].
Corroboration (n.) 確證；證實engthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.
Corroboration (n.) That which corroborates.
Corroboration (n.) Confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence [syn: {documentation}, {certification}, {corroboration}].
Corroborative (a.) 確證的 Tending to strengthen of confirm.
Corroborative (n.) 補藥 A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.
Corroborative (a.) Serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying].
Corroboratory (a.) 確定的；證實的 Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
Corroboratory (a.) Serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying].
Corrode (v. i.) 受腐蝕 To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
Corroding lead, Lead sufficiently pure to be used in making white lead by a process of corroding.
Syn: To canker; gnaw; rust; waste; wear away.
Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrode.
Corroding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrode.
Corrode (v. t.) 侵蝕；損害 To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green-blue solution. -- Boyle.
Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
Corrode (v.) (v. i.) 受腐蝕 Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn: corrode, eat, rust].
Corrode (v.) Become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted" [syn: corrode, rust].
Corrodent (a.) 腐蝕性的 Corrosive. [R.] -- Bp. King.
Corrodent (n.) 腐蝕劑 Anything that corrodes. -- Bp. King.
Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode. [Obs.] -- Sandys.
Corrodibility (n.) 可腐蝕性 The quality of being corrodible. [R.] -- Johnson.
Corrosibility (n.) [U] Corrodibility; quality or degree of being subject to corrosion.
Corrodible (a.) 會腐蝕的 Capable of being corroded; corrosible. -- Sir T. Browne.
Corrosibility (n.) Corrodibility. "Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness." -- Boyle.
Corrosible (a.) Corrodible. -- Bailey.
Corrosibleness (n.) The quality or state of being corrosible. -- Bailey.
Corrosion (n.) [U] 腐蝕；侵入；漸失；衰敗 The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.
Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. -- John Quincy.
Corrosion (n.) A state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action.
Corrosion (n.) Erosion by chemical action [syn: corrosion, corroding, erosion].
Corrosive (a.) 腐蝕的；侵蝕性的 Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." -- Grew. "Corrosive famine." -- Thomson.
Corrosive (a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
Care is no cure, but corrosive. -- Shak.
Corrosive sublimate (Chem.), 氯化汞 Mercuric chloride, HgCl2; so called because obtained by sublimation, and because of its harsh irritating action on the body tissue. Usually it is in the form of a heavy, transparent, crystalline substance, easily soluble, and of an acrid, burning taste. It is a virulent poison, a powerful antiseptic, and an excellent antisyphilitic; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.
Corrosive (n.) 腐蝕物（劑） That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
[Corrosives] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene. -- Dunglison.
Corrosive (n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives. -- Hooker. -- Cor*ro"sive*ly, adv. -- Cor*ro"sive*ness, n.
Corrosive (a.) Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action [syn: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic, mordant].
Corrosive (a.) Spitefully sarcastic; "corrosive cristism".
Corrosive (n.) A substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali).
Corroval (n.) A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
Corrovaline (n.) (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.
Corrugant (a.) Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. -- Johnson.
Corrugate (a.) 起皺的；波狀的 Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.
Corrugated (imp. & p. p.) of Corrugate.
Corrugating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrugate.
Corrugate (v. t.) 使起皺；使成波狀 To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.
Corrugated iron, Sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness.
Corrugated paper, A thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.
Corrugate (v.) (v. i.) 縮成皺狀 Fold into ridges; "corrugate iron".
Corrugation (n.) 起皺；皺紋 The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
Corrugation (n.) A ridge on a corrugated surface.
Corrugation (n.) The act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves.
Corrugator (n.) (Anat.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.
Corrugent (a.) (Anat.) Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator. [Obs.]
Corrump (v. t.) To corrupt. See Corrupt. [Obs.] -- Chauser.
Corrumpable (a.) Corruptible. [Obs.]
Corrupt (v. i.) 腐爛，墮落 To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot. -- Bacon.
Corrupt (v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
Corrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Corrupt.
Corrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrupt.
Corrupt (v. t.) 使腐敗，使墮落；賄賂，收買； 訛用（詞語）；篡改（原稿） To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.
Corrupt (v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. -- 1. Cor. xv. 33.
Corrupt (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt. -- Shak.
Corrupt (v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.
He that makes an ill use of it [language], though he does not corrupt the fountains of knowledge, . . . yet he stops the pines. -- Locke.
Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. -- Matt. vi. 19.
Corrupt (a.) 腐敗的，貪汙的；墮落的，邪惡的；（語言，版本等）訛誤的，走樣的 Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. -- Knolles.
Corrupt (a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.
At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. -- Shak.
Corrupt (a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.
Corrupt (a.) Lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" [ant: {incorrupt}].
Corrupt (a.) Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive [syn: {crooked}, {corrupt}] [ant: {square}, {straight}].
Corrupt (a.) Containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" [syn: {corrupt}, {corrupted}].
Corrupt (a.) Touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" [syn: {corrupt}, {tainted}].
Corrupt (v.) Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: {corrupt}, {pervert}, {subvert}, {demoralize}, {demoralise}, {debauch}, {debase}, {profane}, {vitiate}, {deprave}, {misdirect}].
Corrupt (v.) Make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: {bribe}, {corrupt}, {buy}, {grease one's palms}].
Corrupt (v.) Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: {defile}, {sully}, {corrupt}, {taint}, {cloud}].
Corrupt (v.) Alter from the original [syn: {corrupt}, {spoil}].
Corrupter (n.) 腐蝕者 One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.
Corruptful (a.) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. [Obs.] "Corruptful bribes." -- Spenser.
Corruptibility (n.) 腐敗性；墮落性；賄賂性 The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. -- Burke.
Corruptibility (n.) The capability of being corrupted [ant: {incorruptibility}].
Corruptible (a.) 易腐敗的；易墮落的；易賄賂的 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.
Corruptible (a.) Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
They systematically corrupt very corruptible race. -- Burke. -- {Cor*rupt"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {Cor*rupt"i*bly}, adv.
Corruptible (n.) That which may decay and perish; the human body. [Archaic] -- 1 Cor. xv. 53.
Corruptible (a.) Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: {corruptible}, {bribable} {dishonest}, {purchasable}, {venal}].