corrective 
ity of removing or counteracting what is wronjj 
or injurioim: as, alkalis arc mrm-tiri-sof acids ; 
penalties :irc cnrri'i'lirrit of immoral conduct. 
II. hope* in tinil no |.irit so niiirli iliM'iufil, 
But will with such fair curreelinfn \\v pleaded. 
//. .Innxon. Alchemist, I'rol. 
Some mrn-i'tir,' to its evil . . . the French monarchy 
must have received. liin-kf, Kev. in France. 
2f. Limitation; restriction. 
\\ ith i rrtaill '-,,1-fi-ftif'^ ail'l rXd ptjollS. 
M> I/. //.//., Orig. of Mankind. 
correctively (ko-rek'tiv-li), ndv. In a correc- 
tive manner ; as a corrective ; correctingly. 
correctly (ko-rekt'li), adv. In a correct man- 
ner ; in confo'rmit y wit li t ruth, justice, rectitude, 
or propriety; according to a standard, or in 
conformity with an original or a model ; exact- 
ly ; accurately ; without fault or error : as, to 
behave correctly ; to write, speak, or think cor- 
rectly ; to weigh or measure correctly ; to judge 
correctly. 
Huch lays as neither ebb nor flow, 
Correctly cold, and regularly low. 
Poi>e, Essay on Criticism, 1. 240. 
correctness (ko-rekt'nes), n. The state or 
quality of being correct, or in conformity with 
truth, morality, propriety, or custom; conform- 
ity to any net of rules or wi t h n model ; accuracy, 
exactness, or precision: as, correctness of life 
or of conduct ; correctness in speech or in writ- 
ing ; correctness of taste or of design ; the cor- 
rectness of a copy. 
If by correctness he meant the conforming to rules 
Surely arliitrury, correctness may he another name for 
nlness and absurdity. Macaulay, Moore's Byron. 
Formal correctness, in logic, the character of an Infer- 
ence which conforms U> logical rules, whether the prem- 
ises are true or ii"t. Syn. Accuracy, exactness, regulari- 
ty, precision, propriety, truth. 
corrector (ko-rek'tpr), N. [= F. correcteur = 
Sp. Pg. corrector = It. correttore, < L. corrector, 
< corrigere, pp. correctus, correct: see correct, 
.] 1. One who or that which sets right, or 
renders conformable to a certain standard, 
usage, or rule, or to an original or a model ; one 
who corrects errors. 
He cries up the goodness of the paper, extols the dili- 
gence of the corrector, and is transported with the beauty 
of the letter. Addison, Tom Folio. 
2. One who or that which counteracts or re- 
moves whatever is injurious, obnoxious, or de- 
fective: as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector 
of acidity, etc. 3. One who amends or cor- 
rects, or seeks to amend or correct^ the charac- 
ter or conduct of another, by criticism, reproof, 
or chastisement. 
O great corrector of enormous times ! 
Shaker of o'er-rank states, that healest with blood 
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world 
O' the plnrisy of people. 
fr'lr tcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 1. 
Corrector Of the press, one whose occupation Is to II ml 
anil mark errors in proof-sheets ; a proof-reader. [Now 
only in literary use. ] Corrector of the staplet, an of- 
ficer or a clerk belonging to the staple, who recorded the 
bargains of merchants there made. Minsheu, 1617. 
COrrectoryt (ko-rek'to-ri), . and n. [< correct 
+ -ory.~\ I. a. Containing or making correc- 
tion; corrective. 
Things odious and corrector^ are called stricta; in the law, 
and that which is favourable is called res ampla. 
Jer. Taylor, Ductor Dubitantlum, 11. 406. 
II. H. A corrective. 
'I'o resist all lustful desires, and extinguish them by 
tlieir proper correctorifs and remedies. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 197. 
corregidor (ko-rej'i-d6r; 8p. pron. kor-ri-he- 
dor'), n. [Sp. (= Pg. corrcgedor), a corrector, 
< corregir = Pg. correger, < L. corrigere, cor- 
rect: see correct, r.] 1. In Spain, the chief 
magistrate of a town. 
They shall lioth trot like thieves to the cnrrcqidor. 
Shirley, The Brothers, v. 3. 
Since that time the king has had no officer of any kind 
in the lordship, except his correijidor. 
J. Adams, Works, IV. 312. 
2. In parts of America settled by Spaniards : 
((/) A magistrate having jurisdiction of certain 
special cases prescribed by law. H. W. Sal- 
leek. (b) The chief officer of a corregimiento. 
/'. I . Ili-iii/illi'!,. 
corregimiento (ko-rej'i-mi-en'to; Sp. pron. 
kor-nl-lie-me-aii'to), n. [Sp., < corregir, cor- 
reet: see com 'ct. c.] In parts of America set- 
tled by Spaniards, a geographical division of a 
|HM\ iin-e : the district of a corregidor. /'. ('. 
1279 
correlate (kor-e-laf), '. ; pret. and pp. <<// 
luliil, ppr. ciirri-iii/nii/. [= Pg. carrrliilnr. < -Ml,. 
', ])]>. adj.,'< L. cum-, together, + nln- 
correi (kor'i), . See come. 
correctable (kor-e-lii'ta-bl), a. [< correlate + 
-/<.] Capable of being correlated. 
tus, related, pp. of referrc, refer, relate : see re- 
fer, relate.] I. trans. To place in reciprocal 
relation ; establish a relation of interdepen- 
dence or interconnection between, as between 
the parts of a mechanism ; bring into intimate 
or orderly connection. 
That singular Materialism of high authority and recent 
date which makes Consciousness a physical agent, cor- 
relates It with Light and Nerve force, and so reduces It 
to an objective phenomenon. 
W. K. Cli/ord, Lectures, II. 162. 
Another important principle Is the law of correlated va- 
riation. ... A change in any one letter constantly pro- 
duces related changes in other letters. 
Itanc Taylor, The Alphaliet. li. 364. 
Correlated bodies, in analytical tiu-ch., bodies whose 
kini'inatical elements are confocal ellipsoids. 
II. in trans. To be reciprocally related ; have 
a reciprocal relation with regard to structure 
or use, as the parts of a body. 
correlate (kor'e-lat), a. and . [= Sp. corre- 
late, < ML. "correlatus, pp. adj.: see correlate, 
v."\ I. a. Reciprocally related in any way; 
having interdependence, interconnection, or 
parallelism in use, form, etc. ; correlated : as, 
the correlate motions of two bodies. 
II. n. The second term of a relation ; that to 
which something, termed the relate, is related 
in any given way. Thus, child is the correlate, 
in the relation of paternity, to father as relate. 
Whatever amount of power an organism expends in any 
shape is the correlate and equivalent of a power that was 
taken into itfrom without. //. Spencer, Prlii. of Biol., 23. 
Freedom is consequently the necessary correlate of the 
consciousness of moral law. 
Adamton, Philos. of Kant, p. 116. 
correlation (kor-e-la'shon), n. [= P. correla- 
tion = Sp. correlacion = Pg. correlacSo = It. 
correlazionc, < ML. correlatio(n-), < 'correlate, 
reciprocally related : see correlate, v., and re- 
lation.'] 1. Reciprocal relation; interdepen- 
dence or interconnection. 
The term correlation, which I selected as the title of my 
Lectures In 1843, strictly interpreted, means a necessary 
mutual or reciprocal dependence of two ideas, inseparable 
even in mental conception ; thus, the Idea of height can- 
not exist without involving the idea of its correlate, depth ; 
the idea of parent cannot exist without involving the idea 
of offspring. IT. J{. Grave, Corr. of Forces, p. 183. 
There Is a correlation between the creeds of a society 
and its political and social organization. 
Leslie Stephen, Eng. Thought, I. f 13. 
2. The act of bringing into orderly connection 
or reciprocal relation. 
If there exists any chief engineer of the universe, who 
knows all its powers and properties, such a person could 
work miracles without end, by new correlations of forces 
and matter. Dawion, Nature and the Bible, p. St. 
3. laphysiol., specifically, the interdependence 
of organs or functions ; the reciprocal relations 
of organs. 
Every movement in a muscle presupposes the existence 
of a nerve ; and both of these organs presuppose the ex- 
istence of a nutrient system. In this way one function 
has an intimate connection with other apparently dis- 
similar functions. This relation ... is known as corre- 
lation. Gcgenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 57. 
Some Instances of correlation are quite whimsical : thus, 
cats which are entirely white and hare blue eyes are gen- 
erally deaf. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 26. 
It is an ascertained fact, that when one part of an ani- 
mal Is modified, some other parts almost always change, 
as it were in sympathy with it. Mr. Darwin calls this 
"correlation of growth." 
A. R. Wallace, Nat. Select, p. 310. 
4. In geom., such a relation between two planes 
that to each intersection of lines in either 
there corresponds in the other a line of junc- 
tion between points corresponding to the inter- 
secting lines in the first plane ; also, a relation 
between two spaces such that to every point 
in either there corresponds a plane in the other, 
three planes in either intersecting in a point 
corresponding to the plane of the three points 
in the other space to which the three intersect- 
ing planes correspond ; more generally, a rela- 
tion between figures, propositions, etc., deriv- 
able from one another in an N-dimensional 
space by interchanging points with (n l)-di- 
mensional flats Correlation of energies or forces. 
See energy. 
correlative (ko-rel'a-tiv), a. and . [= P. cor- 
relatif= Sp. Pg. It. correlative; as correlate + 
4ve; or < L. cor- + relatives : see correlate and 
rrttitirr.] I. a. 1. Being in correlation; re- 
ciprocally related or connected; interdepen- 
dent ; mutually implied. 
\l:in :m<! woman, master and servant, father and son, 
prince and subject, are correlative terms. 
Hume, Essays, xi., note 10. 
correspond 
I niter any of tin forim, this earn inu ln-ln i f .1- li m 
ilivi'luality Implies a correlative rctardal in the estah 
li>hnn-rit of iicu jtiilividualitifs. 
//. Sitriu-tr, I'rin. of Itiol., | 3-Jfi. 
2. In gram., having a mutual relation ; answer- 
ing to or complementing one another. Thu, 
either and <;, n'/irrc and there, are correlative conjnin 
lions; tl<>- "if ;ui'l ><li are correlative pronoun*; latin 
quanta* ami f'tiitit* are correlative adjectives. Cor- 
relative figures, figures derivable from one another by 
substituting for every point connected with either a 
plane similarly connected with the oth, r. Correlative 
method, in '(rum., the metlio.l of .1, riving projtctin tin 
orelns by tuilwtitntilli: in known i>r<>p,>-itj.. M > " ['lane !<! 
"point,' and conversely. Correlative propositions. 
In jrrojectioe yeotn., propositions either of hn-li is -in- 
verted into the other by Hul^titutiti. throughout "jmint " 
for "plane," and "lying in" for "intersecting in," and 
conversely. Thus, the following prop .11. la 
live : any two lines whieh intersect in a [>oiiit lie in one 
plane; any two lines which lie in one plane inteix-it in 
a point. Correlative terms, a pair of term* implying 
a relation between the objects they denote, as parent and 
chiltl. 
H. n. Either of two terms or things which 
are reciprocally related; a correlate, careful 
writers distinguish the terms as correlatives, the things as 
correlates. In the medieval l-'ttin, which has greatly in- 
fluenced English terminology, tills distinction is constantly 
maintained. 
Difference has Its correlative in resemblance: neither U 
possible without reflecting the other. 
W. //. Lewes, Prohs. of Life and Mind, II. II. | 14. 
The common use of the term influence would seem to 
imply the existence of its correlative effluence. 
O. W. Holmes, A Mortal Antipathy, xx. 
correlatively (ko-rel'a-tiv-li), adv. In a correl- 
ative relation. 
correlativeness(ko-rera-tiv-nes), n. The state 
of being correlative. 
COrrelativity (ko-rel-a-tiv'j-ti), n. [< correla- 
tire + -icy.] The character or state of being 
correlative ; correlativeness. 
In like manner, the thinker who has fully seen into the 
correlatirity of given opposites has reached a new attitude 
of thought in regard to them. K. Caird, Ilegel, p. 163. 
correligionist (kor-e-lij 'on-ist), n. [< cor- + 
religion + -ist.~\ Same &s coreligionist. 
correptt (ko-repf), a. [< L. correptus, re- 
proached, blamed, pp. of corrijiere, reproach, 
blame, seize upon, snatch, < COTO-, together, 
+ rapere, seize: see rapine.] Blameworthy; 
reprehensible. 
If these corrept and corrupt extasles or extravagancies 
be not permitted to such fanatick triflers. 
Dp. (Jauden, Tears of the Church, p. 212. 
conception (ko-rep'shon), n. [< ME. corre/>- 
riiiint = F. conception (in sense 2), < L. currep- 
tio(n-), < corripere, pp. correptus, seize upon, re- 
proach : see corrept.] If. Chiding; reproof; 
reprimand. 
If it [reproof) comes afterwards, in case of contumacy, 
to be declared in public, it passes from fraternal correptum 
to ecclesiastical discipline. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 753. 
Angry, passionate corrcption Itefng rather apt to provoke 
than to amend. Hammond, Fraternal Admonition, } 15. 
2. In anc. pros., the treatment as metrically 
short of a syllable usually measured as a long: 
opposed to protraction. 
correspond (kor-e-spond'), v. i. [= D. korre- 
sponderen = G. corresj>ondiren = Dan. korre- 
spondere = Sw. korrespondera, < P. corresponds 
= 8p. Pg. corresponder = It. corrispondere, < ML. 
as if *correspondere, < L. com-, together, mutu- 
ally, 4- respondere, answer: see resjiond.] 1. 
To be in the same or an analogous relation to 
one set of objects that something else is to an- 
other set of objects; to be, as an individual 
of a collection, related to an individual of 
another collection by some mode of relation in 
which the members "of the first collection gen- 
erally are relate. I to those of the second: fol- 
lowed by to. Thus, the I'nlted States House of Repre- 
sentatives corresponds to the New York Assembly that 
is, it has an analogous function in government. 
More generally 2. In math., to be, as an in- 
dividual of a set, related to an individual of 
another (or the same) set in a way in which 
every individual of the first set is related to a 
definite number of individuals of the second 
set, and in which a definite number of individ- 
uals of the first set is related to each individual 
of the second set. 3. To be in conformity or 
agreement ; have an answering form or nature ; 
be reciprocally adapted or complementary; 
agree ; match ; fit : used absolutely or followed 
by iriili or to : as, his words and actions do not 
correspond; the promise and the performance 
dp not correspond with each other ; his expen- 
ditures do not correspond to his income. 
Words being but empty sounds, any further than they 
are signs of our ideas, we cannot but assent to them as 
they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther 
than that. Lodce. 
