英和和英

動詞

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.