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Corrective

adjective

Designed to promote discipline. Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary. "Disciplinal measures" , "The mother was stern and disciplinary"

Tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition. "Corrective lenses"

noun

A device for treating injury or disease. Synonym: restorative.

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"Corrective" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Italian origin indicated by his name, had an expression of singular rigidity, to which his features, now become angular, his piercing glance, and his nose like the beak of a bird of prey, did not afford the requisite corrective. ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... in both the Indies, composed of port or madeira, water, lime-juice, sugar, and nutmeg, with an occasional corrective of spirits. The name is derived from ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... School is undoubtedly a good place for a boy, but as a corrective measure it cannot be compared to an apple tree limb ...

— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller

... organisations the events and conditions which the superficial observer regards as the creation of the hour, but which are in reality the outcome of a slow and continuous process of evolution. I remember as a boy being captivated by that charming corrective to this view of historical development, Buckle's History of Civilization, which in recent years has often recurred to my mind, despite the fact that many of his theories are now somewhat discredited. Buckle, if ...

— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett

... the relations between bread, butter, and cheese; the relation in which sugar and salt stand to a large number of consumables. Some of these are natural relations in the sense that one supplies a corrective to some defect of the other, or that the combination enhances the satisfaction or advantage which would accrue from the consumption of each severally. In other cases the connection is more conventional, as that between alcohol and tobacco. The sporting tastes of man supply a strong ...

— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

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