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.
Correctingly
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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.
Corrections
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Corrective(a.)
- Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
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.
Correctively
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Correctiveness
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Correctives
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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.
Correctnesses
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Corrects
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