Sentence examples for a corrupted form from inspiring English sources

For example, it is sometimes said that some term in use in a linguistic community is a corrupted form of a given word, or that some modern art is a corruption of traditional aesthetic forms.

The neighbouring Tionontati united with some Huron refugees and became known to the English as the Wyandot, a corrupted form of Wendat.

The numerical theories of the Greeks were preserved by later Arab and Christian theorists, and their classification of the modes survived, though in a corrupted form, in medieval Europe.

"Dungeon" is a corrupted form of "donjon" and means a dark, unwelcoming prison.

This is possible, since although they claim peaceful tenets, they follow a "corrupted" form of the teachings of the Vulcan philosopher and father of Vulcan logic, Surak.

Early sailors named these birds "Mother Carey's chickens" because they were thought to warn of oncoming storms; this name is based on a corrupted form of Mater Cara, a name for the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The name of the Greater Mount Lofty Parklands, Yurrebilla, was derived from this term, while the nearby town of Uraidla employs a more corrupted form.

If we are serious about liberty, we cannot ignore the issue of choice which, albeit in its corrupted form, has proved to have such powerful appeal in Mrs Thatcher's hands.

Unfortunately most of these early Chinese texts have come down to us only in corrupted form, increasing significantly the number and variety of issues and problems of translating and interpreting them, especially if our primary concern is to provide exegeses and translations of them in terms of what they meant to the people who first wrote and read them.

Other antagonists include the corrupted form of Princess Luna, Nightmare Moon (St.

Above all, for anyone sickened by the unthinking cheerleading for torture we got in 24, Homeland shines a harsher, more interrogative light on the corrupted forms that American patriotism can take.