"corrigible" meaning in English

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          "text": "Wouldst thou […] see\nThy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down\nHis corrigible neck […]",
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        "(obsolete) Submissive to correction"
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          "text": "[…] he was taken up very short, and adjudgd corrigible for such presumptuous language.",
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        "Deserving chastisement."
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        "(obsolete) Deserving chastisement."
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          "text": "Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.",
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        "Having power to correct."
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          "text": "Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.",
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