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Definition of Rectifies
1. rectify [v] - See also: rectify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectifies
Literary usage of Rectifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... which opens from aloft, is all the better understood and the more enjoyed for
the very misconception in detail which it rectifies and explains. ..."
2. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). Governor (1801-1804 : Clinton), New York (State). State Historian (1901)
"Commissary Reed rectifies an Error in His Estimate of the Amount of Wheat on Hand.
Amenia 27th Dec'r 1779. Sir, Since Returning home, fine we Omited giving ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"In page 2.59» Mr. \V. rectifies the hyperbola by mean» •f two ellipses, or, in
Ills own language, and conformable to his own notions, ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"... the place where she sees secret things, rectifies what has been deranged in
human bodies, fructifies young and tender things, . . . and where she aids ..."
5. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated by William Warburton (1837)
"... progress, and order of the several species of idolatry, but clears up and
rectifies much embarrassment and mistake even of the most celebrated moderns, ..."
6. The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, Kt. D.C.L., Principal Secretary of by John Strype (1820)
"Sent to Queen's college in Cambridge : chosen a King's Scholar: reads the Greek
Lecture, and rectifies the pronunciation : University Orator : his applause. ..."
7. The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, Kt. D.C.L., Principal Secretary of by John Strype (1820)
"Sent to Queen's college in Cambridge : chosen a King's Scholar: reads the Greek
Lecture, and rectifies the pronunciation : University Orator : his applause. ..."
8. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"The air-chambers and the light ballast render sinking impossible ; the keel nearly
prevents capsizing, and rectifies it, if it does happen ; while the ..."
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