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See Government, n., 7. Gibbs.

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.

g, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. I do commit his youth To your direction. Shak. All nature is but art, unknown to thee;direction, which thou canst not see. Pope.

hed, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney

A waking up or arousing. [Obs.] Holland

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

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.

xecution of law in a city or state. It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra iv. 19.

Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.

One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.

The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

The act of stretching forth.

ecially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment. Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth. Milton.

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]

To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.

as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

aking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.