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COR'RACLE. See Corricle. 
To CORRA'DE, v. a. [ corrado , Lat.] To rub off; to 
wear away by frequent rubbing ; to fcrape together. 
CORRADIA'TION, f. [con and radius, Lat. ] A con- 
junCtion of rays in one point.—The impreflion of colour 
worketh not but by a cone of direCt beams, or right 
lines, whereof the bafis is in the object, and the vertical 
point in the eye; fo as there is a corradiatior, and con¬ 
junction of beams. Bacon. 
CORRADI'NI (Peter Marcellinus), a learned civilian 
and cardinal, born at Sezza, in 1658, acquired the efteem 
and confidence of Clement XI. and died at Rome in 1743. 
He was the author of a learned and curious work, intitied 
Terns Latium profanum et facrnm, 2 vols. folio ; and a hif- 
tory of Sezza, in quarto. 
CORR A'DO (Sebaftian), an Italian grammarian of the 
fixteenth century, taught the Greek and Latin tongues 
at Reggio, where he formed an academy of polite litera¬ 
ture ; and at length removed to Bologna, in order to be 
profeffor of thofe languages. He wrote feveral works, 
the mod eiteemed of which are, Quejlura in qua Ciceronis 
vita re/ertur, an excellent performance ; and, De Lingua 
Latina. He died in 1556. 
COR'RANS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Var, and chief place of a canton, in the didriCt of 
Brignoles : five miles north of Brignoles. 
COR'RE, f. [from to (have.] The temples; 
that part of the jaws where the beard grows, and which 
it is ufual to (have. 
To COR'RECT, v. a. [ corrigo , correClum, Lat..] To 
punifh ; to chaftize ; to difcipline.—Sad accidents, and 
a date of affliction, is a fchool of vipfue ; it corrects levi¬ 
ty, and interrupts the confidence of finning. Taylor .—To 
amend ; to take away faults in writings, life, or things. 
■—The mind may cool, and be at leifure to attend to its 
domedic concern: to confider what habit wants to be 
corrected , and what inclination to be fubdued. Rogers .— 
To obviate the qualities of one ingredient by another, or 
by any method of preparation.—In cafes of acidity, water 
is the proper drink : its quality of relaxing may be cor - 
reCled by boiling it with fome animal fubdances ; as ivory 
or hartfhorn. Arbuthnot .—To remark faults. 
CORRE'CT, adj. [corrcClus, Lat.] Revifed or finifhed 
with exaCtnefs ; free from faults.—Always ufe the mod 
correEi editions : various readings will be only trouble- 
fome where the fenfe is complete. Felton. 
CORREC'TION, f. Punifliment; difcipline; chaf- 
tifement; penalty.—We are all but children here under 
the great ntader of the family ; and he is pleafed, by 
hopes and fears, by mercies and corrections, to indruCt us 
in virtue. Watts. —Alteration to a better date ; the aCt 
of taking away faults; amendment.—Another poet, in 
another age, may take the fame liberty with my writings; 
if, at lead, they live long enough to deferve correction. 
Dry den .—That which is fubdituted in the place of any 
thing wrong. —Corrections or improvements fliould be 
adjoined, by. way of note or commentary, in their 
proper places. Watts. —Reprehenfion ; animadverfion.— 
They proceed with judgment and ingenuity, edablifiiing 
their affertions, not only with great folidity, but fubmit- 
ting them alfo unto the correction of future difeovery. 
Brown .—Abatement of noxious qualities, by the addition 
of fomething contrary : 
To make ambitious, wholefome, do not take 
A dram of country’s dulnefs ; do not add 
Corrections , but as chemids purge the bad. Donne. 
CORREC'TIONER, f. One that has been in the 
houfe of corredtion; a jail-bird. This feems to be the 
meaning in Shakejptare .—I will have you foundly fwinged 
for this, you blue-bottle rogue ! you filthy fainifhed cor¬ 
rect ioner! Henry IV. 
CORRECTIVE, adj. Having the power to alter or 
obviate any bad qualities.—Mulberries are peCtoral, cor¬ 
rective of bilious alkali. Arbuthnot. 
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CORRECTIVE, f. That which has the power of al¬ 
tering or obviating any thing amifs.—The hair, wool, 
feathers, and feales, which all animals of prey do fwal- 
low, are a feafonable and neceffary corrective , to prevent 
their greedinefs from filling themfelves with too fuccu- 
lentafood. Ray. —Limitation; reftriCtion.—There feems 
to be fuch an indance in the regiment which the human 
foul exercifeth in relation to the body, that, with certain 
correctives and exceptions, may give fome kind of expli¬ 
cation or adumbration thereof. Hale. 
CORRECT'LY, adv. Accurately ; exaCtly ; without 
faults..—There are ladies, without knowing what tenfes 
and participles, adverbs and prepofitions, are, fpeak as 
properly and as iorreClly as mod gentlemen who have 
been bred up in the ordinary methods of grammar- 
fchools. I.ocke. 
CORRECTNESS, f. Accuracy ; exaCtnefs; freedom 
from faults.—The foftnefs of the flefh, the delicacy of 
the diape, air, and pofture, and the correClnefs of defign, 
in this datue, are inexpreflible. Addijon. 
Late, very late, correClnefs grew our care, 
When the tir’d nation breath’d from civil war. Pope. 
CORRECTOR,/! He that amends, or alters, by punifli- 
ment or animadverfion.—How many does zeal urge rather 
to do judice on fome fins, than to forbear all fin ! How 
many rather to be correctors than praCtifers of religion. 
Spratt .— He that revifes any thing to free it from faults. 
In medicine, it denotes fuch an ingredient in a compo- 
fition, as guards againd or abates the force of another ; 
as the lixivial falts prevent the grievous vellications of 
refinous purges, by dividing their particles, and prevent¬ 
ing their adhefion to the intedinal membranes; and as 
fpices and carminative feeds aflid the operation of fome 
cathartics, by difiipating wind. In making a medicine, 
fuch a thing is called a corrector, which deftroys or di. 
minifiles a quality that could not otherwife be difpenfed 
witli; thus turpentines are correctors of quickfilver, by 
dedroying its fluxility, and making it capable of mix¬ 
ture. Quincy. 
Corrector of the Press, f. A perfon employed to 
deteCt the faults of the compofitor, and to adjud ortho¬ 
graphy, punctuation, &c. Thofe employed for this pur- 
pofe are generally printers by profefiion, as fuch are found 
by experience to be more ready in detecting literal erro.rs 
and minute inaccuracies. The value of a book certainly 
depends more upon correClnefs than upon the beauty of 
impreffion, which lad is obtainable by means merely me¬ 
chanical. By correClnefs the old printers, and fome mo¬ 
dern ones, gained all their reputation ; and, indeed, a cor¬ 
rector ought to be a man of general knowledge, of cool 
and found judgment; he fliould be perfevering and phleg¬ 
matic ; for a lively genius, and bright imagination, are 
not necefiary, they are rather hurtful. The difficulties 
which impede correClnefs are thefe : Suppofing the matter 
dull and interefting, the attention can hardly be kept up, 
the eyes read the words and fpelling mechanically ; but 
the fenfe, punCtuation, omiflion or repetitions of words, 
are overlooked. Suppofing the (beets under correction 
to be intereding and amufing, the danger is greater dill; 
the imagination is too ftrongly taken up with the fenfe to 
attend to the words, and minute errors efcape without 
number. The vulgar phrafe of “ two heads better than 
one,” is in no indance better exemplified than in cor¬ 
recting for the prefs ; np work fhouid ever appear before 
the public that has not paffed through the hands of at 
lead two correctors: but many works of reputation are 
read over by three or four, and yet errata will be found, 
fome detected by the editor when too late to correCt 
them, and perhaps dill more by the reader. Of a work 
lately printed at Paris, from which fome of the above 
reflections are borrowed, the editors affert, that every 
fiieet was read by four perfons, and lix different times, 
before it was committed to the prefs : that work is, in¬ 
deed, very correctly printed, but is by no means without 
faults. 
