Correct
King James Dictionary [1]
Correct, a. L., to set right right, straight. See Right. Literally, set right, or made straight. Hence, right conformable to truth, rectitude or propriety, or conformable to a just standard not faulty free from error. A correct edition of a book is exactly according to the original copy. Correct manners correspond with the rules of morality and received notions of decorum. Correct principles coincide with the truth. Correct language is agreeable to established usage.
1. To make right to rectify to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety as, to correct manners or principles. Hence, 2. To amend to remove or retrench faults or errors to set right as, to correct a book to correct a copy for the press or in printing, to correct the press, or errors of the press. 3. To bring back or attempt to bring back to propriety in morals to punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude to chastise to discipline as, a child should be corrected for lying.
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest. Proverbs 29 .
4. To obviate or remove whatever is wrong or inconvenient to reduce or change the qualities of any thing by mixture, or other application to counteract whatever is injurious as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations to correct the relaxing quality of water by boiling it with animal substances.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
(2): (v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
(3): (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.
(4): (v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; - said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
(5): (v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).
