a. | 1. | Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; |
v. t. | 1. | To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; |
2. | To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; | |
3. | To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; | |
4. | To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; - said of whatever is wrong or injurious; |