Hypertext Webster Gateway: "corrective"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corrective \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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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