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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Cor-rĕct'ly, adv. p. 297In a correct manner; exactly; accurately; without fault or error.Cor-rĕct'ness, n. p. 297State of being correct; conformity to truth, justice, or propriety; as, the correctness of opinions, of judgment, or of manners. 2. Conformity to settled usages or rules; as, correctness in writing…Cor-rĕct'or, n. p. 297One who corrects; one who amends faults, retrenches error, and renders conformable to truth or propriety, or to any standard; as, a corrector of the press; a corrector of abuses. 2. That which…Cor-rĕct'o-ry, a. p. 297Containing or making correction.Cor-rĕct'ress, n. p. 297A female who corrects.Cor-rĕġ'i-dōr, n. p. 297A Spanish magistrate.Cŏr'rei, n. p. 297A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. “Fleet foot on the correi.” W. Scott.Côr're-late, n. p. 297One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else. South.Côr're-lāte', v. i. p. 297To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. [R.] Johnson.Côr're-lā'tion, n. p. 297Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law.Cor-rĕl'a-tive, a. p. 297Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.Cor-rēl'a-tive, n. p. 297One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to some other person or thing. Locke. Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman. 2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.Cor-rĕl'a-tive-ly, adv. p. 297In a correlative relation.Cor-rēl'a-tive-ness, n. p. 297The state of being correlative.Cor-rĕp'tion, n. p. 297Chiding; reproof; reprimand; objurgation. [Obs.] Hammond.Cŏr're-spŏnd', v. i. p. 297To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer. Words being but empty sounds, any further than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them, as they correspond to…Cŏr're-spŏnd'ençe or Cŏr're-spŏnd'en-cy, n. p. 297Mutual adaptation of one thing to another; congruity; fitness; relation. The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be reasonable confirmations of the foreknowledge of God. Clark. 2.…Cŏr're-spōnd'ent, a. p. 297Having or indicating correspondence, adaptation, congruity, or fitness; suitable; congruous; conformable; answerable.Cŏr're-spōnd'ent, n. p. 297One who corresponds; one with whom an intercourse is carried on by letters or messages.Cŏr're-spŏnd'ent-ly, adv. p. 297In a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.Cŏr're-spŏnd'ing, p. a. p. 297Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting. 2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who is invited to hold intercourse with the society…Cŏr're-spŏnd'ing-ly, adv. p. 297In a corresponding manner.Cōr're-spōn'sive, a. p. 297Answerable; adapted. Shak.Cōr're-spōn'sive-ly, adv. p. 297In a corresponding manner.Cŏr'ri-dōr', n. p. 297(Arch.) A gallery or passage-way leading to apartments independent of each other. “Long, sounding corridors.” Tennyson. 2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications…Cŏr'rĭ-gēn'dum, n. p. 297A thing or word to be corrected.Cŏr'ri-gent, n. p. 297(Med.) A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.Cŏr'ri-gi-bil'i-ty, n. p. 297The quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.Cŏr'ri-gi-ble, a. p. 297Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. 2. Worthy of being chastised; punishable. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.…Cŏr'ri-gi-ble-ness, n. p. 297The quality of being corrigible.Cor-rī′val, n. p. 297A fellow-rival; a competitor; a co-rival. Shak.Cor-rī'val, a. p. 297Having contending claims; emulous.Cor-rī'val, v. i. & t. p. 297To rival; to compete, or compete with. Shak.Cōr'ri-vāl'i-ty, n. p. 297The character or conduct of a corrival; co-rivalry. Fuller.Cor-rī'val-ry or Cor-rī'val-ship, n. p. 297Competition; rivalry.Cŏr'ri-vāte, v. t. p. 297To draw out of several streams into one; — said of water. [Obs.] Burton.Cŏr'ri-vā'tion, n. p. 297The running of different streams into one. [Obs.] Burton.Cor-rŏb'o-rant, a. p. 297Having the power or quality of giving strength; confirming; as, a corroborant medicine.Cor-rōb'o-rant, n. p. 297(Med.) A medicine that strengthens the body when weak.Cor-rŏb'o-rāte, v. t. p. 297[Lat. corroboratus, p. p. of corroborare, from con and roborare, to strengthen, from robur, strength; Fr. corroborer, Sp. corroborar, It. corroborare. 1. To make strong, or to give additional…Cor-rŏb'o-rate, a. p. 297Corroborated. [Obs.] “Corroborate by custom.” Bacon.Cor-rŏb'/o-rā'tion, n. p. 297The act of corroborating; the act of strengthening or confirming; addition of strength, assurance, or security; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of intelligence. 2. That which…Cor-rōb'o-ra-tīve, a. p. 297Having the power of giving strength, or additional strength; tending to corroborate or confirm. Warburton.Cor-rŏb'o-ra-tīve, n. p. 297A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.Cor-rŏb'o-ra-to-ry, a. p. 297Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.Cor-rōde′, v. t. p. 297To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating small particles from a body, in the manner an animal gnaws a substance. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce…Cor-rōd'ent, a. p. 297Having the power of corroding or wasting by degrees. [Rare.] Bp. King.Cor-rōd'ent, n. p. 297Any substance or medicine that corrodes. Bp. King.Cor-rō′di-āte, v. t. p. 297To eat away by degrees; to corrode. [Obs.] Sandys.Cor-rō′di-bil′i-ty, n. p. 297The quality of being corrodible. [Rare.] Johnson.Cor-rōd'i-ble, a. p. 297Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Browne.Cŏr'-ro-dy, n. p. 297The same as CORODY, q. v. Southey.Cor-rō'si-bil'i-ty, n. p. 297Corrodibility. [Rare.] Boyle.Cor-rō'si-ble, a. p. 297Corrodible. — Bailey.Cor-rō'si-ble-ness, n. p. 297The quality of being corrosible. Bailey.Cor-rō'sion, n. p. 297The action of eating or wearing away by slow degrees, as by the action of acids on metals. Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. Quincy.Cor-rō′sīve, a. p. 297Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, consuming, or impairing. “Corrosive liquors.” Grew. “Corrosive famine.” Thomson. 2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing; as, corrosive care.…Cor·rō′sive, n. p. 297That which has the quality of eating or wearing gradually. “Sharp corrosives to the scirrhous flesh.” Jago. 2. That which has the power of fretting, irritating, or exciting displeasure. Hooker.Cor-rō'sive, v. t. p. 297To corrode; to consume; to eat away. [Obs.] Drayton.Cor-rō′sive-ly, adv. p. 297Like a corrosive; with the power of corrosion; in a corrosive manner.