(a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth,
rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or
imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
(v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth,
justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or
principles.
(v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to
amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon
the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes
so marked).
(v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety
in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral
rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected
for lying.
(v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of
another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the
acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.
