corrector (korektor)

[= F. correct eur = Sp. Pg. corrector = It. correttore, He cries up the goodne of the paper, extols the diligence of the corrector , and is transported with the beauty of the letter. Add is on, Tom Folio. 2. One who or that which counteracts or removes whatever is injurious, obnoxious, or defective: as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of acidity, etc.-3. One who amends or corrects, or seeks to amend or correct, the character or conduct of another, by criticism, reproof, or chastisement. O great corrector of enormous times! Shaker of o'er-rank states, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the plurisy of people. Fletcher (and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 1. Corrector of the pre , one whose occupation is to find and mark errors in proof-sheets; a proof-reader. [Now only in literary use.] - Corrector of the staplet, an officer or a clerk belonging to the staple, who recorded the bargains of merchants there made. Minsheu, 1617. correctoryt (ko-rek'tō-ri), a. and n. [ Things odious and correctory are called strictæ in the law, and that which is favourable is called res ampla. Jer. Taylor , Ductor Dubitantium, ii. 406. II. n. A corrective. To resist all lustful desires, and extinguish them by their proper cor rectories and remedies. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 197. corregidor (ko-rej'i-dôr; Sp. pron. kor-rā-he 1279 correlate (kor-e-lāt'), v.; pret. and pp. corre lated, ppr. correlating. [=Pg. correlatar, That singular Materialism of high authority and recent date which makes Consciousne a physical agent, cor relates it with Light and Nerve force, and so reduces it to an objective phenomenon. W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 162. Another important principle is the law of correlated vaA change in any one letter constantly proriation. Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, ii. 364. duces related changes in other letters. Correlated bodies, in analytical mech., bodies whose kinematical exponents are confocal ellipsoids. II. in trans. To be reciprocally related; have a reciprocal relation with regard to structure or use, as the parts of a body.