Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COR-PUS-CU-LA'RI-AN, a.

Corpuscular, as above.

COR-PUS-CU-LA'RI-AN, n.

An advocate for the corpuscular philosophy.

CORPUS-JURIS-CANONICI, n. [Corpus juris canonici. L.]

The body or code of canon law.

CORPUS-JURIS-CIVILIS, n. [Corpus juris civilis. L.]

Body of civil law.

COR-RADE', v.t.

To rub off.

COR-RA'DED, pp.

Rubbed off.

COR-RA-DI-A'TION, n. [L. con and radiatio. See Ray.]

A conjunction of rays in one point. – Bacon.

COR-RA'DING, ppr.

Rubbing off.

COR-RECT', a. [L. correctus, from corrigo; con and rego, to set right; rectus, right, straight. See Right.]

Literally, set right, or made straight. Hence, right; conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or conformable to a just standard; not faulty; free from error. A correct edition of a book is exactly according to the original copy. Correct manners correspond with the rules of morality and received notions of decorum. Correct principles coincide with the truth. Correct language is agreeable to established usage.

COR-RECT', v.t. [L. correctus, corrigo; con and rego. See Right.]

1. To make right; to rectify; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; as, to correct manners or principles. Hence,
2. To amend; to remove or retrench faults or errors; to set right; as, to correct a book; to correct a copy for the press, or in printing, to correct the press, or errors of the press.
3. To bring back or attempt to bring back to propriety in morals; to punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest. Prov. xxix.
4. To obviate or remove whatever is wrong or inconvenient; to reduce or change the qualities of any thing by mixture, or other application; to counteract whatever is injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations; to correct the relaxing quality of water by boiling it with animal substances. – Arbuthnot.

COR-RECT'ED, pp.

Set right; freed from errors; amended; punished.

COR-RECT'ING, ppr.

Bringing to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; amending; chastising.

COR-REC'TION, n. [L. correctio.]

1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice, or propriety; as, the correction of opinions or manners. All Scripture is profitable for correction. – 2 Tim. iii.
2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as, the correction of a book, or of the press.
3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as, the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.
4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects. Withhold not correction from the child. – Prov. xxiii.
5. In Scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions. They have refused to receive correction. – Jer. v. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. – Prov. iii.
6. Critical notice; animadversion. – Brown.
7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.

COR-REC'TION-AL, a.

Tending to or intended for correction. – Walsh.

COR-REC'TION-ER, n.

One that has been in the house of correction. [Not used.] – Shak.

COR-RECT'IVE, a.

Having the power to correct; having the quality of removing or obviating what is wrong, or injurious; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of bilious alkali. – Arbuthnot.

COR-RECT'IVE, n.

1. That which has the power of correcting; that which has the quality of altering or obviating what is wrong, or injurious; as, alkalies are corrective of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.
2. Limitation; restriction. [Little used.] – Hale.

COR-RECT'LY, adv.

In a correct manner; in conformity with truth, justice, rectitude, or propriety; according to a standard; agreeable to a copy or original; exactly; accurately; without fault, or error; as, to behave correctly; to write, speak or think correctly; to judge correctly.

COR-RECT'NESS, n.

1. Conformity to truth, justice, or propriety; as, the correctness of opinions, of judgement, or of manners.
2. Conformity to settled usages or rules; as, correctness in writing or speaking.
3. Conformity to a copy or original; as, the correctness of a book.
4. Conformity to established rules of taste or proportion; as, the correctness of design in painting, sculpture, or architecture.

COR-RECT'OR, n.

1. One who corrects; one who amends faults, retrenches error, and renders conformable to truth or propriety, or to any standard, as, a corrector of the press; a corrector of abuses.
2. One who punishes for correction; one who amends or reforms by chastisement, reproof, or instruction.
3. That which corrects; that which abates or removes what is noxious or inconvenient; an ingredient in a composition which abates or counteracts the force of another; as, an alkali is a corrector of acids. Turpentine is a corrector of quicksilver. – Quincy.

COR-REG'I-DOR, n. [Sp.]

A Spanish magistrate. – Smollett.

COR'RE-LATE, n. [L. con and relatus. See Relate.]

One who stands in an opposite relation, as, father and son. – South.

COR-RE-LA'TION, n.

Reciprocal relation. – Paley.

COR-REL'A-TIVE, a. [L. con and relativus. See Relate and Relative.]

Having a reciprocal relation, so that the existence of one in a certain state depends on the existence of another; as, father and son, husband and wife, are correlative terms. The term son is correlative to that of father.

COR-REL'A-TIVE, n.

That which is opposed to something else in a certain relation. The son is the correlative of his father. Darkness and light are correlatives. Rest is the correlative of motion.