CORRECTIVE

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot.

2.
a.

Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.

3.
n.

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.

4.
n.

Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

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