1563. in Strype, Ann. Ref., I. xxxv. 393. That corrupted means were used for my delivery.
1581. Act 23 Eliz., c. 8 § 1. Yf the same corrupted waxe shall happen to bee solde.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iii. 57. In the corrupted currants of this world, Offence’s gilded hand may shoue by Iustice.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1638), 320. This corrupted traitor.
1699. Bentley, Phal., xii. 327. The present Copy of Scylax, one of the most corrupted Books in the world.
1731. Swift, On his Death. They argue no corrupted mind In him.
1768. Johnson, Pref. to Shaks., Wks. IX. 291. The emendation of corrupted passages.
1807. J. E. Smith, Phys. Bot., 500. The sap of corrupted wood.
1876. J. H. Newman, Hist. Sk., I. I. i. 44. A pagan, who had some notion of Christianity in a corrupted form.
Hence Corruptedly adv., Corruptedness.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, III. ii. 109. The senat … judged ten yeares together most partially, and most corruptedly.
1648. Jenkyn, Blind Guide, iv. 90. Our native corruptednesse.
1694. Sloane, in Phil. Trans., XVIII. 62. Fowls … called Cuntur, and by the Spaniards corruptedly Condor.
1817. Bentham, Parl. Ref. Catech. (1818), 73. The Judges … are thus kept … in a state … of … corruptedness.
1851. G. S. Faber, Many Mansions (1862), 381, note. References to Pagan Mythology, which sprang corruptedly out of Old Patriarchism.
