What does "corrigible" mean?
Corrigible: Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck." Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.
- 3.Having power to correct; corrective. [Obs.] The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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