Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
capable of being corrected or set right;
- Example: "a corrigible defect"- Example: "a corrigible prisoner"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Corrigible \Cor"ri*gi*ble\ (k?r"r?-j?-b'l), a. [LL. corribilis,
fr. L. corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See
Correrct.]
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1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a
corrigible fault.
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2. Submissive to correction; docile. "Bending down his
corrigible neck." --Shak.
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3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.]
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He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible
for such presumptuous language. --Howell.
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4. Having power to correct; corrective. [Obs.]
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The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
corrigible
adj 1: capable of being corrected or set right; "a corrigible
defect"; "a corrigible prisoner" [ant: incorrigible]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "corrigible":
ameliorable, amendable, controllable, correctable, curable,
domesticable, domitable, emendable, fixable, governable,
handleable, improvable, manageable, manipulable, manipulatable,
medicable, mendable, perfectible, reclaimable, recoverable,
rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable,
reparable, restorable, restrainable, retrievable, reversible,
tamable, untroublesome