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Corrective Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Corrective? [n] a device for treating injury or disease [adj] tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses" [adj] designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Corrective: bettering \| disciplinal \| disciplinary \| nonindulgent \| restorative Related Terms \| Find terms related to Corrective: adjuvant \| aid \| alterative \| analeptic \| antidote \| assistance \| balm \| balsam \| castigatory \| chastening \| chastising \| counteractant \| counteractive \| counteragent \| countermeasure \| counterstep \| curative \| cure \| disciplinary \| emendatory \| Fabian \| gradualistic \| grueling \| healing \| healing agent \| healing quality \| help \| iatric \| inflictive \| medicative \| medicinal \| melioristic \| penal \| penological \| prescription \| punishing \| punitive \| punitory \| radical \| receipt \| recipe \| reformational \| reformative \| reformatory \| reformist \| reformistic \| relief \| remedial \| remedial measure \| remedy \| restorative \| retributive \| revisional \| revisionist \| revisory \| revolutionary \| sanative \| sanatory \| sovereign remedy \| specific \| specific remedy \| succor \| therapeutic \| theriac \| utopian See Also \| device \| face pack \| pack \| pick-me-up \| pickup \| prosthesis \| prosthetic device Corrective In Webster's Dictionary \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. ``The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle.'' --Holdsworth. \Correct"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.

Corrective Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Corrective?

[n] a device for treating injury or disease
[adj] tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
[adj] designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"

Corrective In Webster's Dictionary

\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
         alkali.                               --Arbuthnot.

2. Qualifying; limiting. ``The Psalmist interposeth . . .
   this corrective particle.'' --Holdsworth.


\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.

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