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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishrectifien, fromAnglo-Normanrectifiier,rectefier(“to make straight”), fromMedieval Latinrēctificō(“to make right”), fromLatinrēctus(“straight”).

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Verb

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rectify (third-person singular simple presentrectifies,present participlerectifying,simple past and past participlerectified)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) Toheal (an organ or part of the body).[14th–18th c.]
  2. (transitive) Torestore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.[from 16th c.]
  3. (transitive) Toremedy orfix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).[from 15th c.]
    torectify the crisis
  4. (transitive, chemistry) Topurify orrefine (a substance) bydistillation.[from 15th c.]
  5. (transitive) Tocorrect oramend (a mistake, defect etc.).[from 16th c.]
  6. (transitive, now rare) Tocorrect (someone who is mistaken).[from 16th c.]
    • 1646,Sir Thomas Browne,Pseudodoxia Epidemica,I.3:
      For thus their Sense informeth them, and herein their Reason cannotRectifie them; and therefore hopelessly continuing in mistakes, they live and die in their absurdities[…]
  7. (transitive, geodesy, historical) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.[from 16th c.]
  8. (transitive, electronics) Toconvert (alternating current) intodirect current.[from 19th c.]
  9. (transitive, mathematics) To determine the length of acurve included between twolimits.
  10. (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.

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Translations

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to heal—seeheal
to restore to its proper condition
to remedy or fix
to purify or refine by distillation
to correct or amend something
to correct someone who is mistaken
geodesy: to adjust in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem
to convert alternating current into direct current
to produce by redistilling with flavourings
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