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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a device for treating injury or disease;
[syn: corrective, restorative]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. designed to promote discipline;
- Example: "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"
- Example: "disciplinal measures"
- Example: "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
[syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]

2. tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition;
- Example: "corrective measures"
- Example: "corrective lenses"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\, n.
   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.
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   2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\ (k?rr-r?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. correctif.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as,
      corrective penalties.
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            Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious
            alkali.                               --Arbuthnot.
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   2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this
      corrective particle." --Holdsworth.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

corrective
    adj 1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was
           corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal
           measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn:
           corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]
    2: tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a
       normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
    n 1: a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective,
         restorative]