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

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

Containing or making correction; corrective.

Having power to correct; corrective. [Obs.] The . . . .corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shak.

Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate Macaulay.

Pertaining to emendation; corrective. "Emendatory criticism."" Johnson.

lating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

alifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement. How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth in this relation. Fuller.

That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to. What may else be remedy or cure To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, He will instruct us. Milton.

Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt. Ye are the salt of the earth. Matt. v. 13.