| Correct |
a. |
Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views. |
| Correct |
v. t. |
To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. |
| Correct |
v. t. |
To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked). |
| Correct |
v. t. |
To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. |
| Correct |
v. t. |
To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another;
said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations. |
| Correctable |
a. |
Capable of being corrected. |
| Corrected |
imp. & p. p. |
of Correct |
| Correctible |
a. |
Alt. of Correctable |
| Correctify |
v. t. |
To correct. |
| Correcting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Correct |
| Correction |
n. |
The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. |
| Correction |
n. |
The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. |
| Correction |
n. |
That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin. |
| Correction |
n. |
Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. |
| Correction |
n. |
An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. |
| Correctional |
a. |
Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution. |
| Correctioner |
n. |
One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. |
| Corrective |
a. |
Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. |
| Corrective |
a. |
Qualifying; limiting. |
| Corrective |
n. |
That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. |
| Corrective |
n. |
Limitation; restriction. |
| Correctly |
adv. |
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. |
| Correctness |
n. |
The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. |
| Corrector |
n. |
One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids. |
| Correctory |
a. |
Containing or making correction; corrective. |
| Correctress |
n. |
A woman who corrects. |
