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v. t. To correct. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.
Syn. -- correction, rectification. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. correctio: cf. F. correction. ] 1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correction and instruction must both work
Ere this rude beast will profit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. --
House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. --
Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correctionnel. ] Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. correct or appropriate behavior.
Syn. -- propriety, properness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. correctif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Qualifying; limiting. “The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle.” Holdsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Limitation; restriction. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. directio: cf. F. direction. ] 1. The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o&unr_; public affairs or of a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do commit his youth
To your direction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
ll chance, direction, which thou canst not see. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants. [ 1913 Webster ]

The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gun.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm.

Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence; oversight; government; order; command; guide; clew. Direction, Control, Command, Order. These words, as here compared, have reference to the exercise of power over the actions of others. Control is negative, denoting power to restrain; command is positive, implying a right to enforce obedience; directions are commands containing instructions how to act. Order conveys more prominently the idea of authority than the word direction. A shipmaster has the command of his vessel; he gives orders or directions to the seamen as to the mode of sailing it; and exercises a due control over the passengers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to direction (definition 2). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. serving to indicate direction. [ PJC ]

3. (Radio) transmitting radio signals in a specific direction, or receiving signals only from a narrow angle of directions, thus serving to indicate the direction from which radio signals are coming. Used of antennas; as, a directional antenna. [ PJC ]

n. the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.
Syn. -- directivity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. purposeless. Opposite of purposeful.
Syn. -- adrift(predicate), afloat(predicate), aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ LL. directivus: cf. F. directif. ] 1. Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Able to be directed; manageable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Swords and bows
Directive by the limbs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to sounds coming from one direction than from another.
Syn. -- directionality. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. érectile. ] 1. Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated; as, erectile tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to an erection{ 5 }; as, erectile dysfunction. [ PJC ]

Erectile tissue (Anat.), a tissue, such as that contained in the penis, which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by accumulation of blood in and the consequent distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being erectile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of building or putting up.
Syn. -- erection. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. erectio: cf. F. érection. ] 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything erected; a building of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) The state of a body part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue; -- used especially of the penis; as, to get or have an erection. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. expergisci, p. p. experrectus, to rouse up; ex out + pergere to wake up. ] A waking up or arousing. [ Obs. ] Holland [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + correction: cf. F. incorrection. ] Lack of correction, restraint, or discipline. [ Obs. ] Arnway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indirection. ] Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. “By indirections find directions out.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insurrectio, fr. insurgere, insurrectum: cf. F. insurrection. See Insurgent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [ Obs. ]

Syn. -- Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny. Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew. [ 1913 Webster ]

I say again,
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though of their names in heavenly records now
Be no memorial, blotted out and razed
By their rebellion from the books of life. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. insurrectionnel. ] Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Electricity) A device which converts direct current to alternating current. [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The direction of another's attention to an unimportant place or matter, for the purpose of being able to perform an action undetected; as, misdirection is an important part of a magician's art. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. 'orektiko`s, fr. 'o`rexis, yearning after, from 'ore`gein to reach after. ] (Philos.) Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. porrectio: cf. F. porrection. ] The act of stretching forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. rectus straight. ] A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight line equal in length to any definite portion of the curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. rectification. ] 1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

After the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rectification of a globe (Astron.), its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, rectifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (a) (Naut.) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship. (b) (Chem.) A rectificator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rectified p. pr. & vb. n. Rectifying ] [ F. rectifier, LL. rectificare; L. rectus right + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Right, and -fy. ] 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. [ 1913 Webster ]

I meant to rectify my conscience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added. [ 1913 Webster ]

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To rectify a globe, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To amend; emend; correct; better; mend; reform; redress; adjust; regulate; improve. See Amend. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Recti- + lineal, linear. ] Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being rectilinear. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rectilinear. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Recti- + nerve. ] (Bot.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rectio, fr. regere to rule or govern. ] (Gram.) See Government, n., 7. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Recti- + rostral. ] (Zool.) Having a straight beak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Recti- + serial. ] (Bot.) Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Rectum, and -itis. ] (Med.) Proctitis. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rectitudo, fr. rectus right, straight: cf. F. rectitude. See Right. ] 1. Straightness. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Right judgment. [ R. ] Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source. ] 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor after resurrection shall he stay
Longer on earth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of being risen from the dead; future state. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Matt. xxii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the resurrection, and the life. John xi. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. --
Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as Selaginella convoluta and Selaginella lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]