Word Meanings - INCORRUPTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.
Related words: (words related to INCORRUPTIVE)
- DECAYER
A causer of decay. - DECAY
To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; - INCORRUPTIBLE
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 - INCORRUPTIBLENESS
The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle. - DECAYED
Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n. - LIABLE
1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; - LIABLENESS
Quality of being liable; liability. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - PLIABLE
1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be - COMPLIABLE
Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin. - CONCILIABLE
A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon. - PREDECAY
Premature decay. - RELIABLE
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's - APPLIABLE
Applicable; also, compliant. Howell. - MULTIPLIABLE
Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n. - IMPLIABLE
Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding. - INCOMPLIABLE
Not compliable; not conformable. - ALLIABLE
Able to enter into alliance. - UNRELIABLE
Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable. -- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey. - AFFILIABLE
Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.