CORRIGENT Cor"ri*gent (kr"r—jent), n. Etym: [L. corrigens, p. pr. of corrigere to correct.] (Med.)
Defn: A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.
CORRIGIBILITY
Cor`ri*gi*bil"i*ty (-j-bl"-t), n.
Defn: Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
CORRIGIBLE Cor"ri*gi*ble (kr"r-j-b'l), a. Etym: [LL. corribilis, fr. L. corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See Correrct.]
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.
CORRIGIBLENESS
Cor"ri*gi*ble*ness, n.