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tude, or propriety, or to a just standard; nnot faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views. Always use the most correct editions. Felton.

Capable of being corrected.

To correct. [Obs.] When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.

The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.

Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.

One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [Obs.] Shak.

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

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.

One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.

Containing or making correction; corrective.

A woman who corrects.

Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope.

Want of correction, restraint, or discipline. [Obs.] Arnway.

Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.

The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance.

To fail or err in attempting to correct. "Scaliger miscorrects his author." Dryden.

Incorrect. Dryden.

efulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides.…

ass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic telescope, or microscope, one in which the chromatic aberration is corrected, usually by means of a compoun…