corruptibly

Adverb

corruptibly (not comparable)

1. In a corruptible way.
   • They forth-with forfeited and lost the paradisical-state of their corruptibly perfect natural, in Subjection to that Light that shew’d and offer’d them God’s incorruptibly perfect spiritual creature-Life, State, and Meats, which was their first habitation or state of Innocency.1680, George Sikes, An Exposition of Ecclesiastes, London, Chapter 5, Verse 9
   • Then let them jeer, for I shall clasp thee soon,
     Not in the flesh corruptibly disguised,
     But in the skies, transfigured like a Queen—1870, Charles Kent, “Philippo: The Dream-Haunted”, in Poems, London: Charlton Tucker, page 87
2. (obsolete) With corruption, in a way that corrupts.
   • Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.1556, John Heywood, chapter 7, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the...
   • It is too late: the life of all his blood / Is touch’d corruptibly and his pure brain, / Which some suppose the soul’s frail dwelling-house, / Doth by the idle comments that it makes / Foretell the ending of mortality.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...