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Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Incurable :: Incurable (a.) Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils..

Correction :: Correction (n.) That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod..

Revision :: Revision (n.) The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes..

Redress :: Redress (n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

Correctory :: Correctory (a.) Containing or making correction; corrective.

Correctioner :: Correctioner (n.) One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction..

Spinstress :: Spinster (n.) A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.

Catechise :: Catechise (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith..

Corrigible :: Corrigible (a.) Submissive to correction; docile.

Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc..

Interline :: Interline (v. t.) To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book..

Revise :: Revise (v. t.) To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation..

Chastisement :: Chastisement (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Bridewell :: Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse..

Uncorrigible :: Uncorrigible (a.) Incorrigible; not capable of correction.

Irremediably :: Irremediably (adv.) In a manner, or to a degree, that precludes remedy, cure, or correction..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Revise :: Revise (n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

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