a. and sb. ? Obs. [f. L. type *correctōri-us, f. corrector: see -ORY.]

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  A.  adj. Of the nature of a corrector or correction.

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1620.  Venner, Via Recta, vii. 123. It … addeth … a correctory relish … vnto such [meats] as are hot and drie.

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1757.  Sir J. Dalrymple, Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. (1758), 119. The statute … being correctory of the common law.

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1842.  Blackw. Mag., LII. 61. This new edition does not profess to give any correctory annotations.

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  B.  sb.

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  † 1.  A corrective: see CORRECTIVE B. 1. Obs.

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1607.  Topsell, Serpents (1653), 661. They may be taken with other Correctories.

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1620.  Venner, Via Recta, iii. 67. Pepper is the best correctory for it.

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  † 2.  An emendatory treatise or work. Obs.

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1611.  T. James, Corrupt. Scripture, IV. (1612), 89. Heereof in my Correctorie of S. Gregory, if God wil.

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