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Definition of Rectify

1. Verb. Math: determine the length of. "Rectify a curve"

2. Verb. Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities. "Refine sugar"

3. Verb. Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one. "Reform your conduct"

4. Verb. Set straight or right. "Repair an oversight"

5. Verb. Make right or correct. "Rectify the calculation"

6. Verb. Convert into direct current. "Rectify alternating current"

Definition of Rectify

1. v. t. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.

Definition of Rectify

1. Verb. (transitive) To correct or amend something. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive chemistry) To purify or refine, especially by distillation. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive electronics) To convert alternating current into direct current. ¹

4. Verb. (rfv-sense opposite to sense # 2!) (transitive) To add water to alcoholic spirit to adjust its proof. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rectify

1. to correct [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: correct

Medical Definition of Rectify

1. 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders. "I meant to rectify my conscience." (Shak) "This was an error of opinion which a conflicting opinion would have rectified." (Burke) 2. To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. 3. To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc), flavoring substances, etc, being added. To rectify a globe, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem. Synonym: To amend, emend, correct, better, mend, reform, redress, adjust, regulate, improve. See Amend. Origin: F. Rectifier, LL. Rectificare; L. Rectus right + -ficare (in comp) to make. See Right, and -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectify

recti recti- rectifiability rectifiable rectification rectifications rectificator rectified rectified optics rectified spirit

rectified tar oil rectifier rectifier tube rectifiers rectifies rectify (current term) rectifying rectifying synapse rectifying tube rectifying valve

rectilineal rectilineally rectilinear rectilinear regression rectilinearity rectilinearization rectilinearly rectilineous rectinerved rection

Literary usage of Rectify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a Full and Comprehensive by George Adams, William Jones (1812)
"To rectify the terrestrial globe, is to place it in the same position in which our ... To rectify, then, the terrestrial globe, is to bring it into such a ..."

2. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Promises to rectify mistakes, or previous illegal transactions. In every jurisdiction whether or not it professes to accept the doctrine of moral ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Consent to rectify crooked boundary.—A verbal consent to rectify a crooked boundary, which has been acquiesced in for twenty-five years, is not sufficient, ..."

4. The Practice of the High Court of Chancery: To which is Added a Collection by John Newland (1830)
"Summary Applications to rectify Minutes, Rehearing ; Enrolment; Bill of Review ; Appeal to the House of Lords; Execution of Decrees. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery ...by Henry Maddock, Thomas Huntington by Henry Maddock, Thomas Huntington (1827)
"Motion to rectify the Minutes of the Decree. IT has always been the practice of the Court of Chancery to receive Petitions from either side to rectify the ..."

6. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... the Duke of Epernon—Labours with Henry to rectify the abuses in the finances—The abilities of this prince for government— Singular events—Exposition, ..."

7. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife by John Fraser Macqueen (1885)
"... rectify post-nuptial settlements based upon articles entered settlement's "^° Before marriage. It requires a somewhat stronger case to enable the Court ..."

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