a. [f. prec. + -AL.] Of or pertaining to correction; corrective.
1838. Gladstone, State in Rel. Ch. (1839), 205. At present when the legitimate correctional powers of the Church have become dormant.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., IV. xxiii. (ed. 2), 533. In Jersey, minor offences are referred to a court of Correctional Police.
Hence Correctionally adv.
1879. Gladstone, Gleanings, IV. 103. There are large classes of offences only punishable ‘correctionally’ not criminally.
