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Corrective   /kərˈɛktɪv/   Listen
adjective
Corrective  adj.  
1.
Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. "Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali."
2.
Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth... this corrective particle."


noun
Corrective  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.
2.
Limitation; restriction. (Obs.)





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"Corrective" Quotes from Famous Books



... a possible reform in the future now largely demanded by popular sentiment, some considerable modifications of the laws regulating the transfer of and the succession to landed property. Thus it will be seen that law and the sentiment of society may each be employed as corrective of the other, and that, consequently, their comparison implies a higher standard than either, by means of which each may be tested, and to which each, in its turn, may be referred. This higher or common standard it will ...
— Progressive Morality - An Essay in Ethics • Thomas Fowler
... sake, redeem its notes at par, wherever issued, when it can safely do so; and that in most cases, it has actually done this; but that to make this obligatory would not only be unjust to the bank, but would be highly impolitic, by counteracting the natural and most efficient corrective of the over issues of banks, and the overtrading of individuals; and ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... corrective' meant. 'Why, Sir, (said he,) that the laird was so exquisite, that he set art right, when she ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... he realized the gravity of the problems created by the rise of big business; and he began forthwith to impress upon the people with hammer blows the conditions as he saw them, the need for definite corrective action, and the absolute necessity for such treatment of the case as would constitute the "square deal." An interesting example of his method and of the response which it received is to be found in the report of an address which he made ...
— Theodore Roosevelt and His Times - A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement; Volume 47 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Harold Howland
... thinking. Do what we will, we must each one of us argue in a circle of our own, from which, so long as we live at all, we can by no possibility escape. I am not sure whether the frank acceptation and recognition of this fact is not the best corrective for dogmatism that ...
— Life and Habit • Samuel Butler


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