adv. Also 4 corupliche. [f. CORRUPT a. + -LY2.] In a corrupt or depraved manner; pervertedly; by means of corruption or bribery.
1537. Starkey, Lett. to Pole, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. lxxxi. 196. Alas! Master Pole, what lack of learning and prudence was this, so corruptly to judg the matter.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., II. ix. 42. O that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriu’d corruptly.
1611. Bible, Neh. i. 7. We haue dealt very corruptly against thee.
1732. Law, Serious C., xviii. (ed. 2), 325. We are all of us, for the most part corruptly educated.
1863. H. Cox, Instit., I. v. 24. To which excess several of the judges corruptly gave countenance.
1869. Daily News, 2 Feb., 3/5. He denied that there had been any intention of corruptly influencing votes here.
b. By way of verbal or textual corruption.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 159. Cadwaledrus … is i-cleped Cedwalla … but corupliche, for they knew nouȝt the longage of Britouns.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 9. Called in the Norman language Cover le fue, which we now corruptly call Curfue.
1728. Newton, Chronol. Amended, Introd. 5. Writing Jasus corruptly for Inachus.
1774. C. J. Phipps, Voy. N. Pole, 184. Called by the Russians Morse, from thence by our Seamen corruptly Sea Horse.
