corrector

Noun

corrector (plural correctors)

1. One who corrects.
   • Wisdom is not the most severe corrector of folly.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
   • Time! the corrector where our judgments err,
     The test of truth, love,—sole philosopher,
     For all beside are sophists, […]1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, stanza [HTTP://WWW.GUTENBERG.ORG/FILES/5131/5131-H/5131-H.HTM 130]
2. (obsolete) A proofreader.
   • Seeing therefore those who now possess the employment by all evident signs wish themselves well rid of it; and that no man of worth, none that is not a plain unthrift of his own hours, is ever likely to succeed them, except he mean to put himself to the salary of a press corrector; we may easily...1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC
   • To have a competent knowledge of what has been recited, besides a quick and discerning eye, are the proper accomplishments by which a Corrector may raise his own and his Master's credit: for it is a maxim with Booksellers, to give the first edition of a work to be done by such Printers whom they...1770, Philip Luckombe, A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing, London: J. Johnson, published 1771, pages 440–41
3. (obsolete) A director or governor.