CORRECTION, n. L.
1. The act of correcting the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety as the correction of opinions or manners.
All scripture is profitable for correction. 2 Timothy 3 .
2. Retrenchment of faults or errors amendment as the correction of a book, or of the press.
3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong as the corrections of a copy are numerous set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.
4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults punishment discipline chastisement that which corrects.
Withhold not correction from the child. Proverbs 23 .
5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions.
They have refused to receive correction. Jeremiah 5 .
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. Proverbs 3 .
6. Critical notice animadversion.
7. Abatement of noxious qualities the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects as the correction of acidity in the stomach.
House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined a bridewell.