correctify

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English

Etymology

From correct +‎ -ify.

Verb

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

  1. (nonstandard) To correct.
    • 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, scene i:
      When your worship's pleas'd to correctify a lady.
    • 1859, Seba Smith, My thirty years out of the Senate, page 364:
      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 []
    • 2005, Gaétan Soucy, Sheila Fischman, Vaudeville!:
      "You're a demolisher?" "Apprentice!" replied Xavier enthusiastically, holding up a correctifying finger.
    • 2005, Grey Gundaker, Judith McWillie, No space hidden: the spirit of African American yard work, page 106:
      They recognized Him being that they approached Him but he correctified them. That's what the Bible was saying and you got to believe.