Corrective

4 definitions found

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

  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.
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     2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\ (k?rr-r?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. correctif.]
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     1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as,
        corrective penalties.
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              Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious
              alkali.                               --Arbuthnot.
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     2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this
        corrective particle." --Holdsworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  corrective
       adj 1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was
              corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal
              measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
              [syn: {disciplinary}, {disciplinal}]
       2: 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: {restorative}]

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

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "corrective":
     Fabian, adjuvant, aid, alterative, analeptic, antidote, assistance,
     balm, balsam, castigatory, chastening, chastising, counteractant,
     counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, curative,
     cure, disciplinary, emendatory, 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