correctify

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verb

To correct.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbcorrectify (third-person singular simple present correctifies, present participle correctifying, simple past and past participle correctified)

present singular third person correctifies · participle present correctifying · participle past correctified · past correctified

  1. nonstandardTo correct.

    When your worship's pleas'd to correctify a lady.

    1625, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Elder Brother. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i
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    I've correctified the minutes of Secretary Stiles, and send it to you to publish, to let our Democratic brethren, all over the country, know that we've made a rally here to try to save the party[…]

    1859, Seba Smith, My thirty years out of the Senate, page 364

    "You're a demolisher?" "Apprentice!" replied Xavier enthusiastically, holding up a correctifying finger.

    2005, Gaétan Soucy, Sheila Fischman, Vaudeville!

    They recognized Him being that they approached Him but he correctified them. That's what the Bible was saying and you got to believe.

    2005, Grey Gundaker, Judith McWillie, No space hidden: the spirit of African American yard work, page 106

Origin

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