See Also: corrective(medicine)
corrective(dictionary)
orthodontics, corrective(medicine)
corrective 1, adjective(dictionary)
corrective 2, noun(dictionary)
corrective emotional experience(medicine)
Corrective and Preventative Action(money)

corrective (iou)



corrective adjective & noun. M16.
[Old & mod. French correctif, -ive, or late Latin correctivus, formed as CORRECT verb: see -IVE.]
A. adjective. Having the property or function of correcting or of counteracting what is harmful. M16.
corrective justice, corrective training.
b. noun.
Something that restores to a healthy condition. E17.
A correction, an emendation. L17-M18.
Something that tends to counteract an evil, put right an error, etc. (Foll. by of, to.) M18.
H. T. Buckle Patriotism is a corrective of superstition. R. W. Emerson The criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.
correctively adverb E17.