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Incorruptible

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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

2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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