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Webster's Dictionary 1913
that may be rectified; capable of being corrected or set right; as a rectifiable mistake.
1. Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake.
2. Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight l//e equal in length to any definite portion of the curve.
1. The act or operation of correcting, amending or setting right that which is wrong or erroneous; as the retification of errors, mistakes or abuses.
1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.
2. The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.
That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.
Corrected; set or made right; refined by repeated distiliation or sublimation.
1. One that corrects or amends.
2. One who refines a substance by repeated distiliation.
3. An instrument that shows the variations of the compass, and rectifies the course of a ship.
1. One who, or that which, rectifies.
2. Specifically: (a) (Naut.) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship. (b) (Chem.) A rectificator.
1. To make right; to correct that which is wrong, erroneous or false; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
2. In chimistry, to refine by repeated distiliation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit or wine.
3. To rectify the globe, is to bring the sun's place in the ecliptic on the globe to the brass meridian.
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.
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.
Correcting; amending; refining by repeated distiliation or sublimation.
of Rectify
1. RECTILIN'EAL ,
2. RECTILIN'EAR, adjective [Latin rectus, right, and linea, line.]
3. Right lined; consisting of a right line or of right lines; straight; as a rectilinear figure or course; a rectilinear side or way.
Alt. of Rectilinear
Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.
The quality or state of being rectilinear.
Rectilinear. obsolete
Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.
See Government, n., 7.
Having a straight beak.
Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.
1. In morality, rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws. rectitude of mind is the disposition to act in conformity to any known standard of right, truth or justice; rectitude of conduct is the actual conformity to such standard. Perfect rectitude belongs only to the Supreme Being. The more nearly the rectitude of men approaches to the standard of the divine law, the more exalted and dignified is their character. Want of rectitude is not only sinful, but debasing.
2. There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude - in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming.
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