Webster's Dictionary 1913

8155

Correct

Cor‐rect″ (kôr‐rĕkt″), a. [L. correctus, p. p. of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to lead straight: cf. F. correct. See Regular, Right, and cf. Escort.] Se...

8156

Correct (2)

Cor‐rect″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Corrected; p. pr. & vb. n.Correcting.] 1. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manne...

8157

Correctible

{ Cor‐rect″i‐ble (–r?k″t?–b'l), Cor‐rect″a‐ble (–r?k″t?–b'l), } a. Capable of being corrected.

8158

Correctify

Cor‐rect″i‐fy (k?r–r?k″t?–f?), v. t. To correct.When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady.Beau. & Fl.

8159

Correction

Cor‐rec″tion (k?r–r?k″sh?n), n. [L. correctio: cf. F. correction.] 1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectificatio...

8160

Correctional

Cor‐rec″tion‐al (k?r–r?k″sh?n–a>l), a. [Cf. F. correctionnel.] Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.

8161

Correctioner

Cor‐rec″tion‐er (–?r), n. One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. Shak.

8162

Corrective

Cor‐rect″ive (k?rr–r?k″t?v), a. [Cf. F. correctif.]1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious a...

8163

Corrective (2)

Cor‐rect″ive, n. 1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctiv...

8164

Correctly

Cor‐rect″ly (k?r–r?kt″l?), adv. In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

8165

Correctness

Cor‐rect″ness, 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...

8166

Corrector

Cor‐rect″or (k?r–r?kt″?r), n. One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.

8167

Correctory

Cor‐rect″o‐ry (–?–r?), a. Containing or making correction; corrective.

8168

Correctress

Cor‐rect″ress (–r?s), n. A woman who corrects.

8169

Corregidor

‖Cor‐reg″i‐dor (k?r–r?j″?–d?r; Sp. k?r–r?′h?–d?r″), n. The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

8170

Correi

Cor″rei (k?r″r?), n. [Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner.] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. “Fleet foot on the correi.” Sir W. Scott.

8171

Correlatable

Cor′re‐lat″a‐ble (k3r′r?–l?t″?–b'l), a. Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

8172

Correlate

Cor′re‐late″ (kŏr′rē̍‐lāt″ or kŏr″rē̍‐lāt′), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n.Correlating.] [Pref. cor- + relate.] To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mut...

8173

Correlate (2)

Cor′re‐late″, v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena. Darwin.

8174

Correlate (3)

Cor″re‐late (k?r″r?–l?t), n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative. South.

8175

Correlation

Cor′re‐la″tion (–l?″sh?n), n. [LL. correlatio; L. cor- + relatio: cf. F. corrélation. Cf. Correlation.] Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation ...

8176

Correlative

Cor‐rel″a‐tive (k?r–r?l″?–t?v), a. [Cf. F. corrélatif.] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative term...

8177

Correlative (2)

Cor‐rel″a‐tive, n. 1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke.Spiritual things and spiritual men are corr...

8178

Correlatively

Cor‐rel″a‐tive‐ly, adv. In a correlative relation.

8179

Correlativeness

Cor‐rel″a‐tive‐ness, n. Quality of being correlative.

8180

Correligionist

Cor′re‐li″gion‐ist (k?r′r?–l?j″?n–?st), n. A co-religion�ist.

8181

Correption

Cor‐rep″tion (k?r–r?p″sh?n), n. [L. correptio, fr. corripere to seize.] Chiding; reproof; reproach.Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.Hammond.