Definition for COR-RECT'IVE

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.

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