Significados de corrupt form em inglês

The word is more familiar in the corrupt form 'sepoy'.

Alexander Elder's grace over meat is probably a corrupt form of some ancient rite:

The Arabians had a corrupt form of idolatry which came from the Persians, and worshipped not one, but a great many gods.

The "virgin" was naturally a slight confusion for verger, and the "christian" was a corrupt form of sacristan or sexton.

How omnipotent it is cannot be more clearly shown than by the instance of Rome, where it appears in its most corrupt form.

Either the words are obsolete, or they have come down in such a corrupt form that their original elements and purport cannot be determined.

They become such only in the corrupt forms of certain democracies.

An entirely different stream is the Tigris-a corrupted form of 'Idiklat.'

It may have been a corrupted form of it, or an imitation of it.

Turrald is the corrupted form, doubtless due to early Saxon difficulties with Norman names.

Think of the toil and pains spent in idolatry and in corrupt forms of Christianity.

Probably the English language for a while continued, in ever more and more corrupt forms.

Druidism was the religion of the Celts, and druidism was probably one of the least corrupt forms of paganism.

Even during the Dark Ages, even in its most corrupted form, Christianity wrought for the practical extinction of serfdom.

In their own language they were known as Ouendats (dwellers on a peninsula), a name still extant in the corrupted form Wyandots.]

Of course that Indian isn't a Mason, but in a corrupted form he knows something about Masonry; and where he learned it I can't guess.