corrigible
English
Etymology
From Middle English corrigible, corigyble, from Old French corrigible.
Adjective
corrigible (comparative more corrigible, superlative most corrigible)
- Able to be corrected or set right.
- Synonym: correctable
- Antonym: incorrigible
- 1859, John Stuart Mill, chapter 2, in On Liberty, London: John W. Parker & Son, page 38:
- Why is it, then, that there is on the whole a preponderance among mankind of rational opinions and rational conduct? […] it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible.
- (obsolete) Submissive to correction
- Synonym: docile
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]:
- Wouldst thou […] see
Thy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down
His corrigible neck […]
- (obsolete) Deserving chastisement.
- Synonym: punishable
- 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], “Prince Rocalino’s Journey to Elaiana”, in ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
- […] he was taken up very short, and adjudgd corrigible for such presumptuous language.
- (obsolete) Having power to correct.
- Synonym: corrective
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Related terms
Translations
able to be corrected — see correctable
See also
French
Further reading
- “corrigible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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