1. = INCORRUPT a. 1.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Cor. ix. 25. Thei [strive] … that thei take a coruptible crowne, we forsothe vncorupt.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 43. It is certayne þat bones shul noȝt be corrupte wiþin a fourtniȝt if þai war vncorrupte afore þat tyme.
c. 1450. Capgrave, Life St. Gilbert, 75. Ther was bred kept sextene ȝere aftir his deth, on-corupte, on-mouled.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., V. cxxvii. 108. Thou shalt fynde our thre bodyes hoole & vncorrupte.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 264. If it [sc. ruby] coomme owt of the fyer vncorrupte, it becommeth of the coloure of a burnynge cole.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. xliii. 509. The leaues of the Bay tree doe preserue, keepe vncorrupt and make faster the fish that is fried.
1692. Ray, Disc., II. iv. (1693), 127. The real Shells themselves … remaining still entire and uncorrupt.
1733. Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., viii. 82. The Seeds … are so hardy, as to lie sound and uncorrupt for many years … in the Earth.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 254. So that several substances may be preserved in it uncorrupt for a considerable time.
2. = INCORRUPT a. 2.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 344. Sho sent hur one þat was a maydyn and vncorrupte.
1535. Coverdale, Wisd. vi. 19. The kepinge of ye lawes is perfeccion & an vn corrupte life.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 269. Honest in dede and of vncorrupt maners.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lvi. § 8. That which in him made our nature vncorrupt.
1638. Junius, Paint. Ancients, 6. Such Artificers … carry in their mind an uncorrupt image of perfect beautie.
1670. Cotton, Espernon, II. VII. 304. I have … preserv’d my Hands clean, my Conscience uncorrupt.
1725. Berkeley, Proposal, etc., Wks. 1871, III. 215. The pure uncorrupt doctrine of the gospel.
1784. Cowper, Task, II. 400. I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt.
c. 1814. Southey, Ode War Amer., vi. Thy martyrs purchased at the stake Faith uncorrupt for thine inheritance.
1871. Meredith, H. Richmond, liv. History, like the air we breathe, must be in motion to keep us uncorrupt.
b. Of language, texts, etc.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 95. Mair than 2 thowsand ȝeirs thay haue keipet the toung hail vncorrupte.
1600. E. Blount, trans. Conestaggio, 1. An enimie to the vncorrupt writing of Historiographers.
1693. J. Edwards, Author. O. & N. Test., 53. These Masoretick Doctors have kept it [sc. the Hebrew text] undepraved and uncorrupt.
1845. Kitto, Cycl. Bibl. Lit., I. 377/1. That … their writings … should be preserved entire and uncorrupt.
3. = INCORRUPT a. 3.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., I. x. 42. A learned and uncorrupt Judge.
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. v. (1674), 9. The eternal glory of the uncorrupt Venetian Justice.
1724. Swift, Drapier’s Lett., Wks. 1755, V. II. 114. The greatest, the wisest, and the most uncorrupt minister I ever conversed with.
1774. J. Reade, in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 416. A respectable, unshaken, uncorrupt majority.
1841. Borrow, Zincali, I. xii. I. 192. Pure and uncorrupt justice has never existed in Spain.
