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correctify

correctify verb: to correct.

Verb

correctify (third-person singular simple present correctifies, present participle correctifying, simple past and past participle correctified)

  1. (nonstandard) To correct.
    • When your worship's pleas'd to correctify a lady.1625, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Elder Brother. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II...
    • I've correctified the minutes of Secretary Stiles, and send it to you to publish, to let our Democratic brethren, all over the country, know that we've made a rally here to try to save the party[…]1859, Seba Smith, My thirty years out of the Senate, page 364

Forms of correctify

third-person singular presentcorrectifies
present participlecorrectifying
past participlecorrectified
pastcorrectified

Origin of correctify

From correct + -ify.

Questions about correctify

What does correctify mean?
Correctify means to correct.
What part of speech is correctify?
Correctify is a verb.
What is the past tense of correctify?
The past tense of correctify is correctified.

Words near correctify in the dictionary

  1. correctest
  2. correcteth
  3. correctible
  4. correctified
  5. correctifies
  6. correctify
  7. correctifying
  8. correcting
  9. correcting fluid
  10. correcting fluids
  11. correctingly

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