rectification

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Symonds says of him: "It was he who irrevocably decided the destinies of the romantic drama; and the whole subsequent evolution of that species, including Shakespeare's work, can be regarded as the expansion, rectification, and artistic ennoblement of the type fixed by Marlowe's epoch-making tragedies.

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  1. The act or operation of rectifying. The act of correcting, amending, or setting right that which is wrong or erroneous: as, the rectification of errors, mistakes, or abuses. The proper rectification of the expression would be to insert the adverb as. H. Blair, Rhetoric, xxii.
  2. The process of refining a substance by repeated or fractional distillation: it is in this way freed from other substances which are either more or less volatile than itself, or from non-volatile matters: as, tho rectification of spirits. The concentration of sulphuric acid in platinum or glass vessels is sometimes (improperly) called rectification. The process of rectification is generally done by redistilling, and filtering through alternate layers of woolen blankets, sand, and granulated bone or maple charcoal. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXIX. 80.
  3. In geometry, the determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a given portion of a curve; the finding a formula for the length of the arc of a given curve.
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  • The trade between the two other great powers will therefore be presumably all the heavier, as the rectification of the pressing need of human labour on the one side, and of the corresponding overplus on the other, will fall to them The world of the ancients was confined to the shores of the Mediterranean; and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans sufficed at one time for our traffic. —  Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot
  • "I suppose … your plans for 'rectification' … include bringing Avalon into the Empire," Luisa said. —  "You can't leave now," Daniel Holm told his son
  • He is prepared to accept some border rectification, accompanied by over-flight rights and port facilities in Israel. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • In this last part we will use the process of rectification, that is, matching dates of key events to the suspect charts, looking at how well those fit generally used astrological principals.
  • The present Governor of Nigeria may not remember that conversation as well as I do, but I am sure that he will not mind this, what in diplomatic language is called "rectification" of a statement made to him by an obscure writer his generous sympathy had prompted him to seek out and make his friend The truth of the matter is that my faculty to write in English is as natural as any other aptitude with which I might have been born. —  Notes on My Books
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  1. from Old French (and F.) rectification =Provencal rectificatio =Spanish rectificacion =Portuguese rectificação =Italian rettificazione, from Middle Latin rectificatio (n-), from rectificare, rectify: see rectify.
 

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