corrective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛktɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹektɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: correctives
Etymology: Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: alkalies are correctives of acids
text: penalties are correctives of immoral conduct
text: […] To make
Courts hot ambitions wholesome, do not take
A dramme of Countries dulnesse; do not adde
Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad.
ref: c. 1598, John Donne, “To Sir Henry Wotton”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, published 1633, page 63:
text: 1605, Francis Bacon, Of the proficience and aduancement of learning diuine, and humane in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon, London: Henrie Tomes, pp. 4b-5,
If then such be the capacitie and receit of the mind of Man, it is manifest, that there is no daunger at all in the proportion or quantitie of knowledge howe large soeuer; least it should make it swell or outcompasse it selfe; no, but it is meerely the qualitie of knowledge, which be it in quantitie more or lesse, if it bee taken without the true correctiue thereof, hath in it some Nature of venome or malignitie, and some effects of that venome which is ventositie or swelling.
text: The materials for the foreign settlements are far from being as perfect, or as much to be depended upon as we could wish; it was very seldom that I could venture to transcribe any thing directly from them without some addition or some corrective.
ref: 1757, William Burke, An Account of the European Settlements in America, London: R. and J. Dodsley, Volume 2, Preface:
text: An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XXIII, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: If one had to choose among Wells’s own contemporaries a writer who could stand towards him as a corrective, one might choose Kipling, who was not deaf to the evil voices of power and military “glory.”
ref: 1941, George Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, in Dickens, Dali and Others, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1946, page 123:
glosses: Something that corrects or counteracts something.
examples: text: What Correctives there may be supposed that may check and restrain that Increase of Mankind, that otherwise according to the ordinary course of Nature would have obtained in the World.
ref: 1677, Matthew Hale, chapter 7, in The Primitive Origination of Mankind, London: William Shrowsbery, page 203:
text: It is a maxim established upon good reason, that every thing exceeding its just bounds, is hurtful to nature. The best of things are not excepted in this general rule. Even the necessary supports of life, if not qualified and made wholesome by this corrective, may prove the procurers of death.
ref: c. 1780, John Trusler, “Some observations upon drunkenness”, in An Easy Way to Prolong Life, London, page 28:
glosses: Limitation; restriction.