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English Dictionary: corrective	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for corrective
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
corrective adj designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" Synonym(s): corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses" n a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective, restorative]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Corrective \Correct"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 alkali. --Arbuthnot. 2. Qualifying; limiting. [bd]The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle.[b8] --Holdsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Corrective \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 correctives of immoral conduct. --Burke. 2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.