a. Obs. Also 5 corromp-. [a. OF. co(r)rumpable, corrompable, f. corrompre CORRUMP: see -ABLE.] = CORRUPTIBLE.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 2149. Of a thyng that parfit is and stable Descendynge so til it be corrumpable [v.r. corumpable].
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, VI. xv. (1554), 163 a. Of soule eternall, of body corumpable.
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIII. xvii. That whyche was mortal and corrompable. Ibid. (1483), Gold. Leg., 258/2. Be not thou wrothe to leue the world corrumpable with his couetyses.
