Also 6–8 corrigidor. [Sp. corregidor, n. of action f. corregir, ad. L. corrigĕre to correct: cf. CORRECTOR.] A Spanish magistrate; ‘the chief Justicer or gouernor of a towne’ (Minsheu).
c. 1594. Sp. Tragedy, IV. in Hazl., Dodsley, V. 125. For thus I us’d, before my marshalship, To plead in causes as corrigidor.
1622. F. Markham, Bk. War, V. viii. 191. Corrigidors or Beadles to punish the Infragantic or unruly.
1668. Dryden, Evening’s Love, V. i. Run to the corrigidor for his assistance.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3701/2. The Corrigidor and other Magistrates of this Town.
1838. Prescott, Ferd. & Is. (1846), II. xiv. 42. To supervise the conduct of the corregidors and subordinate magistrates.
