CORRECTIVE
\kəɹˈɛktɪv], \kəɹˈɛktɪv], \k_ə_ɹ_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of CORRECTIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
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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.
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Limitation; restriction.
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Correctly.
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Correctness.
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Having the power to make right.
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That which amends or makes right; an antidote.
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Correctively.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Correctly.
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Correctness.
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That which corrects.
By Daniel Lyons
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Correctly.
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Correctness.
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Adapted to correct.
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Corrector.
By James Champlin Fernald
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1. Counteracting, modifying or changing what is injurious. 2. A drug which modifies or corrects an undesirable or injurious effect of another drug.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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