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Corrigible
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
2. Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck." Shak.
3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.
4. Having power to correct; corrective. [Obs.] The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak.