rectify
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rectify
- /ˈɹɛktəˌfaɪ/
Where it comes from
From Middle English rectifien, from Anglo-Norman rectifiier, rectefier (“to make straight”), from Medieval Latin rēctificō (“to make right”), from Latin rēctus (“straight”).
verb rectifies · rectifying · rectified
- To heal (an organ or part of the body).
- To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
- To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.). to rectify the crisis
- To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
- To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
- To correct (someone who is mistaken). For thus their Sense informeth them, and herein their Reason cannot Rectifie them; and therefore hopelessly continuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurdities […]
- To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
- To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
- To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
- To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
