- 1. a. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. Source: opted
- 2. a. Submissive to correction; docile. Source: opted
- 3. a. Deserving chastisement; punishable. Source: opted
- 4. a. Having power to correct; corrective. Source: opted
- 5. adj. capable of being corrected or set right Source: wordnet
- 6. 1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. 2. Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his corrigible neck." Shak. 3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. 4. Having power to correct; corrective. [Obs.] The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak. Source: webster
- 7. a. capable of being corrected or set right Source: ecdict
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