Thesaurus: corrective

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1. a. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
2. a. Qualifying; limiting.
3. n. 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.
4. n. Limitation; restriction.
5. adj. designed to promote discipline
6. adj. tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
7. n. a device for treating injury or disease
8. 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. 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.
9. j:76/n:24 n. a device for treating injury or disease s. designed to promote discipline s. tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition