correctify
verbEtymology From correct + -ify.
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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, scene i:
- 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:
2 more examples
- "You're a demolisher?" "Apprentice!" replied Xavier enthusiastically, holding up a correctifying finger.2005, Gaétan Soucy, Sheila Fischman, Vaudeville!:
- They recognized Him being that they approached Him but he correctified them. That's what the Bible was saying and you got to believe.2005, Grey Gundaker, Judith McWillie, No space hidden: the spirit of African American yard work, page 106: