CORRECTIVE

corrective

(adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; “corrective measures”; “corrective lenses”

corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal

(adjective) designed to promote discipline; “the teacher’s action was corrective rather than instructional”; “disciplinal measures”; “the mother was stern and disciplinary”

corrective, restorative

(noun) a device for treating injury or disease

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

corrective (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.

(obsolete) Qualifying; limiting.

Noun

corrective (plural correctives)

Something that corrects or counteracts something.

(obsolete) Limitation; restriction.

Source: Wiktionary

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Cor*rect"ive (krr-rk"tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. correctif.]

1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot.

2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.

Cor*rect"ive, n.

1. That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. Burke.

2. Limitation; restriction. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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