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1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.

Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot.

2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.

Cor*rect"ive, n. 1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. Burke.

2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Cor*rect"ly (k?r-r?kt"l?), adv. In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

Cor*rect"ness, n. 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.

Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.

Cor*rect"or (k?r-r?kt"?r), n. [L.] One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.

Cor*rect"o*ry (-?-r?), a. Containing or making correction; corrective.

Cor*rect"ress (-r?s), n. A woman who corrects.

||Cor*reg"i*dor (k?r-r?j"?-d?r; Sp. k?r-r?`h?-d?r"), n. [Sp., orig., a corrector.] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

Cor"rei (k?r"r?), n. [Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner.] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

Cor`re*lat"a*ble (k3r`r?-l?t"?-b'l), a. Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

Cor`re*late" (k&obreve;r`r&esl;*lāt" or k&obreve;r"r&esl;*lāt`), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n. Correlating.] [Pref. cor- + relate.] To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor.

Cor`re*late", v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena. Darwin.

Cor"re*late (k?r"r?-l?t), n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative. South.

Cor`re*la"tion (-l?"sh?n), n. [LL. correlatio; L. cor- + relatio: cf. F. corrÚlation. Cf. Correlation.] Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.

Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; -- usually having some reference to the principle of conservation of energy. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation. -- Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of energy, may exert.

Cor*rel"a*tive (k?r-r?l"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. corrÚlatif.] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.

Cor*rel"a*tive, n. 1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke.

Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman.

2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.

Cor*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. In a correlative relation.

Cor*rel"a*tive*ness, n. Quality of being correlative.

Cor`re*li"gion*ist (k?r`r?-l?j"?n-?st), n. A co-religion&?;ist.