Adjective: corbe
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more corbe |
| Superlative | most corbe |
Sample Sentences
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I deeme thy braine emperished bee
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Through rusty elde, that hath rotted thee:
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Or sicker thy head veray tottie is,
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So on thy corbe shoulder it leanes amisse. [1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like corbe
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old French corbe, from Latin curvus. See: Latin Adjectives '
curvus'.