1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety; as the correction of opinions or manners.

All scripture is profitable for correction. 2 Tim 3.

2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as the correction of a book, or of the press.

3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.

4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects.

Withhold not correction from the child. Prov 23.

5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions.

They have refused to receive correction. Jer 5.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. Prov 3.

6. Critical notice; animadversion.

7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as the correction of acidity in the stomach.

House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.