Definition of correct

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Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..

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Correctress :: Correctress (n.) A woman who corrects.
Emendatory :: Emendatory (a.) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
Teinoscope :: Teinoscope (n.) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.
Grey :: Grey (a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).
Castigator :: Castigator (n.) One who castigates or corrects.
Salt :: Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt..
Ortho- :: Ortho- () A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic..
Incorrection :: Incorrection (n.) Want of correction, restraint, or discipline..
Right :: Right (a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford..
Misconceive :: Misconceive (v. t. & i.) To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.
Mishear :: Mishear (v. t. & i.) To hear incorrectly.
Orthodoxy :: Orthodoxy (n.) By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief..
Drum :: Drum (n.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane..
Pick :: Pick (n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture..
Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation..
Misrehearse :: Misrehearse (v. t.) To rehearse or quote incorrectly.
Handsome :: Handsome (superl.) Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse..
Moralize :: Moralize (v. t.) To render moral; to correct the morals of.
Inexactness :: Inexactness (n.) Incorrectness; want of exactness.
Property :: Property (a.) Propriety; correctness.
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