Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 130

Correligionist (n.) A co-religion/ist.

Correption (n.) Chiding; reproof; reproach.

Corresponded (imp. & p. p.) of Correspond

Corresponding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Correspond

Correspond (v. i.) To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.

Correspond (v. i.) To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.

Correspond (v. i.) To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with.

Correspondence (n.) Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

Correspondence (n.) The letters which pass between correspondents.

Correspondence (n.) Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

Correspondencies (pl. ) of Correspondency

Correspondency (n.) Same as Correspondence, 3.

Correspondent (a.) Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.

Correspondent (n.) One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.

Correspondent (n.) One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

Correspondent (n.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

Correspondently (adv.) In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.

Corresponding (a.) Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.

Corresponding (a.) Carrying on intercourse by letters.

Correspondingly (adv.) In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corresponsive (a.) Corresponding; conformable; adapted.

Corridor (n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

Corridor (n.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

Corrie (n.) Same as Correi.

Corrigenda (pl. ) of Corrigendum

Corrigendum (n.) A fault or error to be corrected.

Corrigent (n.) A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action.

Corrigibility (n.) Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

Corrigible (a.) Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.

Corrigible (a.) Submissive to correction; docile.

Corrigible (a.) Deserving chastisement; punishable.

Corrigible (a.) Having power to correct; corrective.

Corrigibleness (n.) The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.

Corrival (n.) A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion.

Corrival (a.) Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.

Corrival (v. i. & t.) To compete with; to rival.

Corrivalry (n.) Corivalry.

Corrivalship (n.) Corivalry.

Corrivate (v. t.) To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.

Corrivation (n.) The flowing of different streams into one.

Corroborant (a.) Strengthening; supporting; corroborating.

Corroborant (n.) Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.

Corroborated (imp. & p. p.) of Corroborate

Corroborating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corroborate

Corroborate (v. t.) To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

Corroborate (v. t.) To make more certain; to confirm; to establish.

Corroborate (a.) Corroborated.

Corroboration (n.) The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

Corroboration (n.) That which corroborates.

Corroborative (a.) Tending to strengthen of confirm.

Corroborative (n.) A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.

Corroboratory (a.) Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrode

Corroding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrode

Corrode (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.

Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.

Corrode (v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Corrodent (a.) Corrosive.

Corrodent (n.) Anything that corrodes.

Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode.

Corrodibility (n.) The quality of being corrodible.

Corrodible (a.) Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

Corrosibility (n.) Corrodibility.

Corrosible (a.) Corrodible.

Corrosibleness (n.) The quality or state of being corrosible.

Corrosion (n.) The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.

Corrosive (a.) Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.

Corrosive (a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.

Corrosive (n.) That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

Corrosive (n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.

Corroval (n.) A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

Corrovaline (n.) A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

Corrugant (a.) Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.

Corrugate (a.) Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

Corrugated (imp. & p. p.) of Corrugate

Corrugating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrugate

Corrugate (v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.

Corrugation (n.) The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

Corrugator (n.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Corrugent (a.) Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator.

Corrump (v. t.) To corrupt. See Corrupt.

Corrumpable (a.) Corruptible.

Corrupt (a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

Corrupt (a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

Corrupt (a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

Corrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Corrupt

Corrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corrupt

Corrupt (v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

Corrupt (v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

Corrupt (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

Corrupt (v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

Corrupt (v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

Corrupt (v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

Corrupt (v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

Corrupter (n.) One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.

Corruptful (a.) Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.

Corruptibility (n.) The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness.

Corruptible (a.) Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.

Corruptible (a.) Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.

Corruptible (n.) That which may decay and perish; the human body.

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