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Incorruptible

Ĭn’cor-rŭpt’i-ble, a.

adjective

a. [Prefix in, not, and corruptible; Fr. & Sp. incorruptible, It. incorruttibile, Lat. incorruptibilis.]

Sense 1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible; spirits are supposed to be incorruptible.

Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

Sense 2. Incapable of being bribed; inflexibly just and upright.

Ĭn’cor-rŭpt’ĭ-ble, n.

noun

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, the most prominent article of whose belief was, that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and from the time of his conception was incapable of change or alteration, even by natural appetites and passions, so that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, and the like, only in appearance.