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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Correct \Cor*rect"\ (k[^o]r*r[e^]kt"), a. [L. correctus, p. p.
     of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to
     lead straight: cf. F. correct. See {Regular}, {Right}, and
     cf. {Escort}.]
     Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth,
     rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or


     imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct
     views.
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           Always use the most correct editions.    --Felton.
  
     Syn: Accurate; right, exact; precise; regular; faultless. See
          {Accurate}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Correct \Cor*rect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Corrected}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Correcting}.]
     1. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice,
        or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or
        principles.
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              This is a defect in the first make of some men's
              minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
                                                    --T. Burnet.
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     2. To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend;
        to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark
        upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the
        type the changes so marked).
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     3. 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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              My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct
              him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his
              knees he would be even with me.       --Shak.
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     4. To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of
        another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to
        correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline
        preparations.
  
     Syn: To amend; rectify; emend; reform; improve; chastise;
          punish; discipline; chasten. See {Amend}.
          [1913 Webster] Correctible

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  correct
       adj 1: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;
              "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the
              right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right
              decision" [syn: {right}] [ant: {incorrect}, {incorrect}]
       2: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the
          party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: {right}]
       3: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
          "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open
          oysters" [syn: {right}]
       4: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"
          [syn: {right}] [ant: {wrong}]
       v 1: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the
            calculation" [syn: {rectify}, {right}] [ant: {falsify}]
       2: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
          victims of the Holocaust" [syn: {right}, {compensate}, {redress}]
          [ant: {wrong}]
       3: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive
          remarks" [syn: {chastise}, {castigate}, {objurgate}, {chasten}]
       4: adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the
          effects or air resistance" [syn: {compensate}, {counterbalance},
           {even out}, {even off}, {even up}]
       5: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The
          teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn: {discipline},
           {sort out}]
       6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices
          slumped" [syn: {decline}, {slump}]
       7: alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a
          standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the
          alignment of the front wheels" [syn: {adjust}, {set}]
       8: treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his
          myopia"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  298 Moby Thesaurus words for "correct":
     Christian, OK, absolute, accepted, accommodate, accommodate with,
     accord, according to Hoyle, accurate, acknowledged, adapt,
     adapt to, adjectival, adjust, adjust to, admitted, admonish,
     adverbial, agree with, all right, ameliorate, amend, annul,
     appropriate, approved, apt, assimilate to, attentive, attributive,
     authentic, authoritative, awaken, be guided by, becoming,
     befitting, being done, bend, berate, better, blame, blue-pencil,
     break the spell, bring to account, bring to book, burst the bubble,
     call to account, cancel, canonical, careful, castigate, censure,
     change, chasten, chastise, chide, chime in with, close, comely,
     comme il faut, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, condign,
     conform, conformable, conforming, conjunctive, conscientious,
     conventional, copulative, correspond, counteract, counterbalance,
     critical, cure, customary, de rigueur, dead right, deal with,
     debunk, decent, decorous, delicate, demanding, detailed, disabuse,
     disappoint, discipline, disenchant, disillude, disillusion,
     disillusionize, done, due, edit, emend, emendate, enlighten,
     established, evangelical, exact, exacting, exigent, expose,
     exquisite, factual, faithful, fall in with, faultless, felicitous,
     fine, finical, finicking, finicky, firm, fit, fitting, fix,
     flawless, follow, formal, functional, fussy, gear to,
     give satisfaction, glossematic, go by, good, good-mannered, grade,
     grammatic, happy, harmonize, have words with, impeccable, improve,
     in order, inflict upon, inspired, intransitive, just, just right,
     kosher, lecture, let down easy, let in on, letter-perfect, linking,
     literal, make all square, make conform, make good, make over,
     make right, make up for, mannerly, mark, masthead, meet, mend,
     meticulous, minute, modify, mold, narrow, natural, neutralize,
     nice, nominal, normal, normative, nullify, objurgate, observe,
     of the faith, offset, okay, orthodox, orthodoxical, participial,
     particular, pay reparations, penalize, perfect, pillory,
     postpositional, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic,
     prepositional, prick the bubble, pronominal, proper, punctilious,
     punctual, punish, put right, put straight, put to rights, rate,
     rebuke, received, recense, recognized, recompense, reconcile,
     rectify, redact, redraft, redress, refined, reform, regulate,
     religious, remedy, remunerate, repair, reprehend, reprimand,
     reprove, requite, revamp, reverse, revise, rework, rewrite, right,
     right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigid, rigorous,
     rub off corners, scold, scriptural, scrupulous, scrutinizing,
     seemly, set, set down, set right, set straight, set to rights,
     set up, settle, settle with, shape, show up, sound, spank,
     square accounts, standard, straight, straight-up-and-down,
     straighten, straighten out, strict, structural, substantive,
     subtle, suit, suitable, syntactic, tagmemic, take down,
     take to task, tally with, tell the truth, textual, traditional,
     traditionalistic, transitive, true, true-blue, unblindfold,
     uncharm, undeceive, undistorted, unimpeachable, unspell, upbraid,
     usual, valid, veracious, verbal, veridical, vigorous, visit upon,
     wake up, well-behaved, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-mannered,
     well-put, well-spoken, work over, yield
  
  

















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