What's the difference between corrigible and incorrigible?

Corrigible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
  • (a.) Submissive to correction; docile.
  • (a.) Deserving chastisement; punishable.
  • (a.) Having power to correct; corrective.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In these cases lenses made from Polycon and BPflex were used, which proved very compatible and have corrigated the visual defect in the best way possible.
  • (2) The use of the autoblood with combined blood corrigents (1:4) in severe hemorrhagic shock led to the same degree of recovery of tubular secretion and glomerular filtration as combined blood corrigents alone.
  • (3) The study showed 49% of conditions related to UTI and some corrigible inadequacies in the process of care: 37.2% of indications were probably not justified; 40% of patients who did not undergo urineculture had indications and 13% who underwent urineculture had no indications to the test.
  • (4) Because of incomplete rehabilitation by the moment of patient's discharge from the hospital, it is necessary to continue the corrigative therapy directed at liquidation of the globular volume deficiency, correction of disproteinemia, normalization of the indices of central hemodynamics and metabolic processes in the organs and tissues.
  • (5) The influence of autologous blood, rheopolyglucinum with mannitol and of two combined blood corrigents on tubular secretion (with respect to 131I-hippuran excretion) and glomerular filtration (with the use of 169Yb-DTPA) was studied in experiments on white mice with "irreversible" hemorrhagic shock.
  • (6) The highest effect was recorded when the blood corrigent was supplemented by a compound resuming the electron transport along the mitochondrial respiratory chain.
  • (7) Combined parenteral (dextrans) and enteral (energetic and plastic substrates) administration of drugs and nutrients is an optimal method of corrigative therapy after resection of the stomach.
  • (8) The procedure utilizes the corrigible error correction (CEC) technique comprised of three response curves--standard, Youden one-sample, and method of standard additions (MOSA) plots, from a total of 15 to 18 X,Y data pairs.
  • (9) The existence of a moderate volume deficit, not corrigible with a chronic surcharge of water, together with the reversed diurnal pattern of water excretion and the AVP data, suggest--as a physiopathological basis of the syndrome--a severe anomaly of the osmoreceptors, with alteration of thirst and of the osmodependent AVP responses, so that the AVP secretion was regulated exclusively through volumetric mechanisms.
  • (10) In each case, we use a plaster cast, which is changed after a few days as long as the foot is limp and well corrigible.
  • (11) Left ventricular-right atrial communication is a relatively rare surgically corrigible congenital heart defect.
  • (12) Gastralgin contains in one bag--alginic acid 0.500, sodium alginate 0.500, aluminium hydroxide 0.200, magnesium hydroxide 0.100, calcium carbonate 0.500 and corrigent up to 7g.
  • (13) It is recommended not to restrict the performance of corrigative therapy to the early postoperative period, and to continue it under laboratory control up to normalization of the indices of hemodynamics and microcirculation.
  • (14) Rheopolyglucinum with mannitol improved, to some extent, the kidney function, while the combined blood corrigents including rheopolyglucinum, mannitol, crystalloids and sodium succinate contributed to more complete recovery of the kidney function.
  • (15) A method for the complex corrigative intensive therapy is presented.

Incorrigible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
  • (n.) One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain’s welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.
  • (2) But more importantly, the museum's exhibitions keep surfacing the "incorrigible plurality" – as the poet Louis MacNeice put it – of human beings and how that manifests in the communities, nation states and empires they build.
  • (3) Journalists have colluded in the self-pleasuring of Boris Johnson by obsessing over which side of the fence that incorrigible attention-seeker will fall.
  • (4) Police suspect global Project was actually made-up: a cover story or “legend” designed to disguise the real purpose of Kovtun and Lugovoi’s trip to London, which was to murder a man long regarded by the Kremlin as an incorrigible traitor.
  • (5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
  • (6) Exarticulation according to Syme was resorted in order to cope with an incorrigible abnormal position of the foot and for leg length inequality.
  • (7) And there are entries that point to Peel as an incorrigible collector and tireless champion of the recherche: with all due respect to an oeuvre that included the piquant-sounding Fuckin' 4 Bucks and I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, how many albums by Washington DC splattercore pioneers the Accüsed does one man really need?
  • (8) But they are more or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill."
  • (9) Eve Ensler and her incorrigible team have done so much to bring about this campaign.
  • (10) After she accused a neighbour of attempting to rape her, the 10-year-old Holiday, an incorrigible truant, was sent to a Catholic reform school until her mother secured her release.
  • (11) In fact, being drawn so narrowly from the category Occasion Wear, the costumes and photographs could scarcely have been better chosen to overlay memories of the surge of royal-blaming that Diana’s death inspired in 1997 – of her own reinvention as a global charity envoy and amateur healer, of her appointment as feminist heroine as well as tabloid goddess and, above all, of her magnificent achievements as the royal family’s incorrigible, lead tormentor.
  • (12) Continental Europeans often assume that England is, in its heart of oak, incorrigibly hostile to Europe.
  • (13) Later the infant will be operated, longer be will keep glottal stops may be incorrigible.
  • (14) It wasn't just that I was blind, which people seemed to find very interesting and therefore took a lot of notice of me, which as an incorrigible showoff I liked.
  • (15) He was described as seeming almost to be ‘obsessed with women’, and an ‘incorrigible womaniser’.” One female editorial member of the team gave evidence about “the almost daily sexual harassment” experienced at the hands of Hall.
  • (16) As trade secretary, he would be incorrigibly illiberal, refusing landing rights to Freddie Laker's Skytrain and being duly overruled by the high court.
  • (17) It can be traced back to Karl Jaspers who was the first to mention the three criteria of delusions, which are to be found in the textbooks ever since: (1) certainty, (2) incorrigibility, and (3) impossibility or falsity of content.
  • (18) As Marston sails for Europe, watching America recede into his past, Fitzgerald offers a closing meditation nearly as incantatory as the famous conclusion of Gatsby: "Watching the fading city, the fading shore, from the deck of the Majestic, he had a sense of overwhelming gratitude and of gladness that America was there, that under the ugly débris of industry the rich land still pushed up, incorrigibly lavish and fertile, and that in the heart of the leaderless people the old generosities and devotions fought on, breaking out sometimes in fanaticism and excess, but indomitable and undefeated.
  • (19) There's something incorrigibly Manchester about them in the same way that Happy Mondays are also typically Mancunian.
  • (20) Seven principles under Talmudic Law are discussed which were used by the Court to help determine whether or not an individual was in fact an incorrigible delinquent.