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Definition of Corrector
1. n. One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.
Definition of Corrector
1. Noun. One that corrects. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corrector
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrector
Literary usage of Corrector
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"Here the corrector interpolates a whole line of his own, which we can by no means
accept. The miserable Leontes, gazing on the supposed statue of his wife, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"corrector ITALIC—(P. 335) We find the idea of a governor of Italy in the famous
advice to Angu- which Dion Cassius (52, 21) puts in the mouth of Maecenas. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"corrector of Opium. ... a German physician, the sulphate of soda is an excellent
corrector of the unpleasant effects of opium, given in the proportion of a ..."
4. History of Zionism, 1600-1918 by Nahum Sokolow (1919)
"In this connection we meet Manasseh as publisher or corrector (proof reader) of
his three partial and complete Bible editions: (i) ..."
5. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"As a corrector of Greek proofs (if in no other way), I might surely have gained
enough for my slender wants. Such an office as this I could have discharged ..."
6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"The corrector gives us a substitute which recommends itself,—considering, ...
Mr. Knight adopts the latter; but the corrector makes it ' slowly moving. ..."
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