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"
Generic synonyms: Distill, Make Pure, Purify, Sublimate
Derivative terms: Rectification, Refinement, Refiner, Refining
3. Verb. Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one. "Reform your conduct"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Related verbs: Reform, See The Light, Straighten Out
Specialized synonyms: Moralise, Moralize
Derivative terms: Reclamation, Rectification, Reform, Reformation, Reformative, Reformatory, Reformist
4. Verb. Set straight or right. "Repair an oversight"
Generic synonyms: Correct, Right
Derivative terms: Amendable, Rectification, Rectifier, Remediation, Remedy, Reparation
5. Verb. Make right or correct. "Rectify the calculation"
Generic synonyms: Change By Reversal, Reverse, Turn
Specialized synonyms: Amend, Remediate, Remedy, Repair, Debug
Derivative terms: Correction, Rectification
Antonyms: Falsify
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. to correct [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: correct
Medical Definition of Rectify
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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)
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Literary usage of Rectify
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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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