Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COR-RECT'
COR-RECT', v.t. [L. correctus, corrigo; con and rego. See Right.]
- To make right; to rectify; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; as, to correct manners or principles. Hence,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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