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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\ (k?rr-r?k"t?v), adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Corrective \Cor*rect"ive\, noun
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
corrective
adjective
1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: {disciplinary}, {disciplinal}]
2: tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
noun: a device for treating injury or disease [syn: {restorative}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "corrective": Fabian, adjuvant, aid, alterative, analeptic, antidote, assistance, balm, balsam, castigatory, chastening, chastising, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, countermeasure, counterstep, curative, cure, disciplinary, emendatory, gradualistic, grueling, healing, healing agent, healing quality, help, iatric, inflictive, medicative, medicinal, melioristic, penal, penological, prescription, punishing, punitive, punitory, radical, receipt, recipe, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformist, reformistic, relief, remedial, remedial measure, remedy, restorative, retributive, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revolutionary, sanative, sanatory, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, succor, therapeutic, theriac, utopian
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