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•faults. But after all this, it will naturally be afked, have 
the editors ofthe Encyclopedia Londinenfis attained cor- 
redlnefs for their own undertaking. They do not pre¬ 
tend to offer a premium for tire difcovery of a tingle fault, 
as did the editors of a claffic author upon a certain occa- 
fion ; but they can fafely fay, that they have collated 
every word in this dictionary with the beft authorities 
upon every fubjedt, and that its revilion is the exclulive 
employment of three different perfons. 
CORREC'TRICE, or Correctress, f. A female 
who acts as a corrector.—The corredlricc by whofe means 
I am in my wits, and without whom I am no longer 
myfelf. Shaftefbury, 
CORRE'GA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Eftremadura: ten miles north-north-eaft of Peniche. 
CORRE'GIDOR, y An officer of juftice in Spain, 
who is the chief magiftrate of a town or province. 
CORRE'GIO, the celebrated painter. See Alregri. 
CORRE'GIO, a town of the Italian republic, formerly 
capital of a fmall principality of the fame name, in the 
duchy of Modena; united to the Modenefe in 1635 ; de¬ 
fended by a caftle : eight miles north-north-weft of Mo¬ 
dena, and twenty-five fouth of Mantua. From this town 
the painter Antony de Allegri took the name of Corregio. 
To COR'RELATE, v.n. [from ton and relatus , Lat.} 
To have a reciprocal relation, as father and Ion. 
COR'RELATE, f. One that (lands in the oppofite 
-relation.—It is one thing for a father to ceafe to be a 
father, by calling off' his fon ; and another for him to 
ceafe to be fo, by the death of his fon : in this the rela¬ 
tion is at an end for want of a correlate. South." 
CORRE'LATI VE, adj. \_con and relativus, Lat.J Hav¬ 
ing a reciprocal relation, fo that the exiftenee of one in a 
particular (late depends upon the exiftence of another.—■ 
Father and fon, hulband and wife, and fuch other correla¬ 
tive terms, feem nearly to belong one to another. South. 
.—Giving is a relative aClion, and fo requires a correlative 
to anfwer it: giving, on one part, transfers no property, 
unlefs there be an accepting on the other. South. 
CORRE'LATI VE, f. What has a reciprocal rela¬ 
tion.—By whatever method one man gains an eftate, by 
that fame method (or its correlative) fome other man has 
loft it. Blackjlone. 
CORRE'LATIVENESS, f. The (late of being cor¬ 
relative. 
CORREP'TION,y. [corripio, correptum, Lat.] Objur¬ 
gation ; chiding ; reprehenfion ; reproof.—If we mult be 
talking of other people’s faults, let it not be to defame, 
but to amend them, by converting our detraction into 
admonition and fraternal correption. Government of tkcTongue. 
Tc CORRESPO'ND, v. n. [cot? and refpondeo,\.aX.~\ To 
fuit; to anfwer; to be proportionate ; to be adequate 
to ; to be adapted to ; to fit.—The days, if one be com¬ 
pared with another fucceflively throughout the year, are 
found not to be equal, and will not juftly correfpond with 
any artificial or mechanical equal meafures of time. Hol¬ 
der. —Words being but empty founds, any farther than 
they are figns of our ideas, we cannot but alfent to them, 
* as they correfpond to thofe ideas we have, but no farther 
than that. Locke. —To keep up commerce with another 
by alternate letters. 
CORRESPONDENCE, or Correspondency, f. 
Relation ; reciprocal adaptation of one thing to another. 
—Whatever we fancy, things keep their courfe ; and 
their habitudes, corref'pondencies, and relations, keep the 
fame to one another. Locke. —Intercourfe ; reciprocal in¬ 
telligence.—I had difeovered thole unlawful corrcfpon- 
dtneies they had ufed, and engagements they had made, to 
embroil my kingdoms. King Charles. 
Sure the villains hold.a correfpondence 
With th’ enemy, and thus they would betray us. Denham. 
Friend (hip ; interchange of offices or civilities.—Let fuch 
military perfons be allured, and well reputed of, rather 
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than factious and popular; holding alfo good correfyon- 
der.ee with the other great men in the Hate. Bacon. 
CORRESPONDENT, adj. Suitable; adapted; agree, 
able ; anfwerable : 
And as five zones th’ etherial regions bind, 
Five correfpondcnt are to earth affign’d. Drydcn. 
CORRESPONDENT^ One with whom intelligence 
or commerce is kept up by mutual meffkges cr letters.— 
He was pleafed to command me to fend to him, and re¬ 
ceive from him, all his letters from and to all his corrt- 
Jpondents at home and abroad. Denham. 
CORRESPON'SIVE, adj. Anfwerable; adapted to 
any thing : 
Priam’s fix gates i’th’ city, with maffy ftaples. 
And correfponfive and fulfilling bolts, 
Sperre up the fons of Troy. Skakefpeare. 
CORRE'ZE, a department of France; bounded ore 
the north by the department of the Creufe, on the eaft 
by the departments of Puy-de-Dome and Cantal, on the 
fouth by that of the Lot, and on the fouth-weft by that 
of the Dordogne, and on tire north-weft by the depart¬ 
ment of Vienne. Tulle is the capital. 
CORRE'ZE, a river of France, which rifes about 
twenty miles north-eaft of Tulle, paffes by that town, 
Correze, Brive, &c. and joins the Vezere, three miles 
below Brive. It gives name to the department through 
which it paffes. 
CORRE'ZE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
of Tulle, on a river of the fame name : eight miles north- 
eaft of Tulle. 
COR'RJB-EOIJGH, a lake of Ireland, in the county 
of Galway : twenty miles long, and from two to five 
wide. The fouthern extremity is about three miles north, 
of Galway. 
COR'RIDOR. See Coridor. 
COR'RIGIBLE, adj. [from corrigo, Lat. } That which 
may be altered or amended. He who is a proper objedt 
of puniftiment; puniffiable.—He was taken up very (hort, 
and adjudged corrigible for fuch prefumptuous language. 
Howel. —Corrective ; having the power to correct. Not 
proper, noritfed. —Our bodies are our gardens, to the which 
our wills are ^aideners; fo that, if we will either have 
it fteril with idlenefs, or manured with induftry, the power 
and corrigible authority of this lies in our will. Shahefp. 
CORRIGI'OLA, y. [diminutive from corrigia, a 
thong of leather, or (lioe-latchet.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs pentandria, order trigynia, natural order h< ■> 
loraceae. The generic characters are—Calyx: periun. 
thium five-leaved ; leaflets ovate, concave, fpreading, 
fize of the corolla, membranaceous on the margin, per. 
manent. Corolla : petals five, ovate, fpreading, fcarce 
larger than the calyx. Stamina: filaments five, fubu. 
late, fmall ; antherae fimple. Piftillum : germ ovate, 
three-cornered; ltyle none ; ftigmas three, obtufe. Pe- 
ricarpium: none; calyx converging. Seed: Angle, ovate, 
three-fided.— EJfential Character. Calyx, five-leaved ; pe. 
tals, five ; feed, one, three-fided. 
There is but one fpecies, called corrigiola litoralis, cr 
baftard knot-grafs. It has many, (lender, round, Items, 
with a few branches at the end, two or three inches long, 
covered with leaves; thefe are alternate, of a kind of 
fpatulate form, acuminate, fmall, feftile, of a glaucous 
hue ; ftipules in pairs, acute, filvery ; the fruit is a fmall 
nut, covered with the permanent flower ; it is crufta- 
ceous, wrinkled, and tubercled, brown, one-celled, and 
valvelefs; it inclofes a lingle, fubglobular., fmooth, ru- 
fefeent feed ; a filiform umbilical chord afeends from the 
bafe of the nut to the' top of the feed; the embryo is 
roundifh, inverted, pale yellow, and furrounds the albu¬ 
men like a ring: it flowers in June and July, and is an¬ 
nual. Native of France, Germany, Denmark, Swifler- 
land, Piedmont, in Candy foils, ufually near the fea or 
