correction (korekshon)

[ Nowe Marche is doon, and to correctioun His book is goon, as other did afore. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 139. 2. The act of noting and pointing out for removal or amendment, as errors, defects, mistakes, or faults of any kind. Another poet, in another age, may take the same liberty with my writings; if, at least, they live long enough to deserve correction. Dryden, Pref. to Fables. 3. The change or amendment indicated or effected; that which is proposed or substituted for what is wrong; an emendation: as, the cor rections on a proof. Corrections or improvements should be adjoined, by way of note and commentary, in their proper places. Watts. 4t. Correctne . [Rare.] So certain is it that correction is the touchstone of writing. Johnson, Greek Comedy. 5. In math. and physics, a subordinate quantity which has to be taken into account and applied in order to insure accuracy, as in the use of an instrument or the solution of a problem.-6. The correction of an object-gla may be le ened by separating the lenses. Science, III. 487. 8. The rectification of faults, or the attempt to rectify them, as in character or conduct, by the use of restraint or punishment; that which corrects; chastisement; discipline; reproof. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction. Prov. iii, 11. Wilt thou, pupil-like, Take thy correction mildly? ki the rod? Shak., Rich. II., v. 1. Their ordinary correction is to beat them with cudgels. Capt . John Smith , True Travels, I. 144. Commi ioners of charities and correction. See commi ioner. Correction of a fluent, in math., a proce in fluxions equivalent to the determination of the constant of integration. Correction of the pre , the marking of errors or defects in proof-sheets to be corrected by the printers in the type from which they were taken. House of correction, a place of confinement intended to be reformatory in character, to which persons convicted of minor offenses, and not considered as belonging to the cla of profe ional criminals, are sentenced for short terms. Under correction, as subject to correction; as liable to error. 80. Biron. Three times thrice is nine. Cost. Not so, sir; under correction , sir; I hope it is not Shak ., L. L. L., v. 2. I speak under correction ; for I do not pretend to look at the subject as a question of psychology, but simply for the moment as one of education. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 17. correctional (ko-rek's hon-al), a . [= F. corree tionnel = Sp. Pg. correccional , correctio nalis , correctio ( n- ), improvement: see cor rection.] Tending to or intended for correction or reformation. When a state has a number of correctional institutions. The Century, XXXII. 167.