Then, if your hand was not immediately lifted to rectify it, the tail would rapidly increase in length and volume, and a perfect rain of hair-pins would begin to descend upon your shoulders.
Can it be believed that an unchangeable God can communicate to man the power to change or rectify His plan, a power which, according to His essence, an immutable being can not have himself?
We have not hesitated to include in this work the preceding observations, because they appeared to us necessary to rectify or complete the facts advanced by Herodotus, Diodorus Sicculus, Plutarch, Porphyrus, and many others.
Pelletan, who furnishes us with the preceding criticism, proposes to rectify the method after the data which we derive from those of the Egyptians, of Clauderus, and the researches of Rouelle.
The younger generation has hardly even knocked frankly at the door of adult customs, much less been invited in to rectify through better education the brutalities and inequities established in adult habits.
The consequence was that he spent much time in the endeavor to rectify his mistakes of policy by fleeing from one commander to another.
This disappointment I endeavoured to rectify by enclosing the letter; but when I had done so, Sambo could not tell me how to address it, as he was in ignorance both of the place and its distance.
Perhaps, therefore, the idea of setting the fashion may possibly induce you to reconsider and rectify an absurdity, which, while no inconvenience to you, is often a very great one to those you employ.
And then he could rectify those omissions of the morning; but neither was this all; a strong inexplicable attraction drew him straight to the spot where he had stood so long after Gwynneth was gone.
In this respect, and this alone, I crave the indulgence of the bench, and beg leave to rectify one of my mistakes.
I have shown this publicly at press conferences, and so I will employ all means to rectify this mistake--the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald.
And I hope some day to rectify this, because I think conditions of this kind in our United States of America are deplorable.
I expect to write to anybody officially to rectify this mistake.
To rectify this, he proposed the following proviso to be added to the resolution, viz: Provided, That the allowance now given upon vessels employed in the fisheries, shall not be increased.
It is well to occasionally administer an aperient, and also to rectify any errors of diet, if necessary, and to remove by the exercise of judicious and kindly advice, and change of scene undue excitement or morbid feeling.
Berzelius recommends the crude spirit to be agitated with a fatty oil, to remove empyreumatic matter, and then to rectify it, first, from recently burnt charcoal, and next with chloride of calcium.
A better plan is to rectify the oil from strong brine, and then to separate any adhering water, either by repose or chloride of calcium.
Agitate the crude distilled oil with red oxide of mercury, in slight excess, and after a few days' contact, rectify the oil from a little fresh oxide of mercury.
Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front.
The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
She tried to rectify her error by calling out now, but there was no response.
I have been blaming her for withholding her knowledge from the authorities, and have advised her to rectify the omission without delay.
It has also been produced in attempting forcibly to rectify knock-knee and other deformities in this region, and in making traction on the limb to correct deformities following recovery from tuberculous disease of the knee.
Operative interference may be called for torectify deformities resulting from mal-union.
He then suggested a course of action for black soldiers: The President's heart bleeds when any Americans are victims of injustice, and he is doing everything he possibly can to rectify this situation in our country.
But as the record suggests, this promise to rectify the situation was never meant to extend beyond the gates of the military reservation.
In order to complete and rectify our conclusions we have still to study the harmony of the facts.
It is the task of history to rectify these images gradually, by eliminating the false elements one by one, and replacing them by true ones.
Still, it was too hard a punishment that the ghost of her transgression should thus cry out against her, and she had done her best to rectify it.
Having done your best to rectify what is now irrevocable, be at peace with your conscience.
For their vanity, as I have shewn, would not suffer them to rectify their mistakes by the authority of more antient and more learned nations.
We may by these means rectify a mistake in Philo, who makes Sanchoniathon say, that Adodus of Phenicia was king of the country.
It shall be therefore bootless That longer you desire the court, as well For your own quiet as to rectify What is unsettled in the King.
He was continually urging Origen to explain some passage of Scripture, or to rectify some doubtful reading.
Reason, on the contrary, exhorts him to resist, and to exert himself immediately in counsel to rectify or alleviate what has happened, adapting his conduct as well as he can to the actual throw of the dice which has befallen him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rectify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
