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To quote erroneously or incorrectly. Shak.

To rehearse or quote incorrectly. Sir T. More.

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.

To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.

To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. Swift.

Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith.

To send amiss or incorrectly.

To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.

To spell incorrectly.

An incorrect statement.

To write incorrectly.

s; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison.

To render moral; to correct the morals of. It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country. D. Ramsay.

ys from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.

tation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command. A look or a nod only ought to correct them [the children] when they do amiss. Locke. Nations obey my word and wait my nod. Prior. The land of Nod, sleep.

sion in different individuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight. Brande & C.

Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. Locke.

Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.

A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.

By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.