Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 131
Corruptingly (adv.) In a manner that corrupts.
Corruption (n.) 墮落；腐化；貪汙；賄賂 [U]；（語詞的）訛用，訛誤 [（the）S] [（+of）]； 腐壞，腐爛 [U] The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". -- Bacon.
Corruption (n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. -- Hallam.
They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. -- Bancroft.
Note: Corruption, when applied to officers, trustees, etc., signifies the inducing a violation of duty by means of pecuniary considerations. -- Abbott.
Corruption (n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
{Corruption of blood} (Law), Taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others.
Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. -- Blackstone.
Syn: Putrescence; putrefaction; defilement; contamination; deprivation; debasement; adulteration; depravity; taint. See {Depravity}.
Corruption (n.) Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain [syn: {corruptness}, {corruption}] [ant: {incorruption}, {incorruptness}].
Corruption (n.) In a state of progressive putrefaction [syn: {putrescence}, {putridness}, {rottenness}, {corruption}].
Corruption (n.) Decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation).
Corruption (n.) Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction" [syn: {corruption}, {degeneracy}, {depravation}, {depravity}, {putrefaction}].
Corruption (n.) Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: {corruption}, {subversion}].
Corruption (n.) Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering".
Corruptionist (n.) （尤指在政治生活中）行賄者；贊成行賄的人 One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. -- Sydney Smith.
Corruptive (a.) 敗壞性的；使腐壞的 Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. -- Ray.
Corruptive (a.) Tending to corrupt or pervert [syn: {corruptive}, {perversive}, {pestiferous}].
Corruptless (a.) Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.
Corruptly (adv.) 腐敗地；墮落地 In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.
Corruptly (adv.) In a corrupt manner [syn: {corruptly}, {corruptedly}].
Corruptness (n.) 墮落；腐敗 The quality of being corrupt.
Corruptness (n.) The state of being corrupt.
Corruptness (n.) Lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain [syn: {corruptness}, {corruption}] [ant: {incorruption}, {incorruptness}].
Corruptress (n.) A woman who corrupts.
Thou studied old corruptress. -- Beau. & Fl.
Corsac (n.) (Zool.) The corsak.
Corsak (n.) (Zool.) A small foxlike mammal ({Cynalopex corsac}), found in Central Asia. [Written also {corsac}.]
Corsage (n.) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
Corsage (n.) A flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.
Corsair (n.) A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
Corsair (n.) A piratical vessel.
Corsak (n.) A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.
Corse (n.) A living body or its bulk.
Corse (n.) A corpse; the dead body of a human being.
Corselet (n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
Corselet (n.) The thorax of an insect.
Corsepresent (n.) An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
Corset (n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
Corset (n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
Corseted (imp. & p. p.) of Corset.
Corseting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corset.
Corset (v. t.) To inclose in corsets.
Corslet (n.) A corselet.
Corsned (n.) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.
Cortege (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.
Cortes (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.
Cortices (n. pl. ) of Cortex.
Cortex (n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.
Cortex (n.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.
Cortex (n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.
Cortical (a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.
Corticate (a.) Alt. of Corticated.
Corticated (a.) Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
Corticifer (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.
Corticiferous (a.) Producing bark or that which resembles it.
Corticiform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.
Corticine (n.) A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.
Corticose (a.) Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.
Corticous (a.) Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.
Cortile (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
Corundums (n. pl. ) of Corundum.
Corundum (n.) (Min.) The mineral alumina ({Al2O3), as found native in a crystalline state. Transparent varieties are used as gemstones, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.
Note: The name corundum is sometimes restricted to the non-transparent or coarser kinds. Emery is a dark-colored granular variety, usually admixed with magnetic iron ore.
Corundum (n.) Very hard mineral used as an abrasive [syn: corundom, corundum].
Coruscant (a.) Glittering in flashes; flashing. -- Howell.
Coruscant (a.) Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly].
Coruscate (v. i.) To glitter in flashes; to flash.
Coruscation (n.) A sudden flash or play of light.
Coruscation (n.) A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
Corve (n.) See Corf.
Corvee (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
Corven () p. p. of Carve.
Corvet (n.) Alt. of Corvette.
Corvette (n.) (Naut.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
Corvette (n.) A highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer.
Corvetto (n.) (Min.) A curvet. -- Peacham.
Corvine (a.) Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.
Corvine (a.) Relating to or resembling a crow.
Corvorant (n.) See Cormorant.
Compare: Cormorant
Cormorant (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]
Cormorant (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. -- B. Jonson.
Corybants (n. pl. ) of Corybant.
Corybantes (n. pl. ) of Corybant.
Corybant (n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
Corybantiasm (n.) (Med.) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. -- Dunglison.
Corybantic (a.) 狂躁的，大吵大鬧的；狂歡作樂的 Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.
Corybantic (a.) (Formal) (Also Corybantic) （音樂或舞蹈）狂野奔放的 Wild and uncontrolled; used especially to describe music and dancing.
// The corybantic frenzy of the music.
Corybantic (a.) Wild; frenzied.
‘Rock and roll's corybantic gyrations.’
Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.
Corymb (n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.
Corymbed (a.) Corymbose.
Corymbiferous (a.) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
Corymbose (a.) Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.
Corymbosely (adv.) In corymbs.
Coryphaenoid (a.) Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin.
Coryphee (n.) A ballet dancer.
Coryphene (n.) A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2)
Corypheuses (n. pl. ) of Corypheus.
Coryphei (n. pl. ) of Corypheus.
Corypheus (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.
Coryphodon (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.
Coryphodont (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.
Coryza (n.) Nasal catarrh.
Coscinomancy (n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve.
Coscoroba (n.) A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.
Cosecant (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cosen (v. t.) See Cozen.
Cosenage (n.) See Cozenage.
Cosening (n.) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
Cosentient (a.) Perceiving together.
Cosey (a.) See Cozy.
Cosher (v. t.) To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.
Cosher (v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to pet.
Cosherer (n.) One who coshers.
Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Cosier (n.) A tailor who botches his work.
Cosignificative (a.) Having the same signification.
Cosignitary (a.) Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.
Cosignitaries (n. pl. ) of Cosignitary.
Cosignitary (n.) One who signs a
treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries
of the treaty of
Cosily (adv.) See Cozily.
Cosinage (n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.