Corrective

a.	1.
	1.	Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. - Arbuthnot.
	2.	Qualifying; limiting.
n.	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.
	2.	Limitation; restriction.

Noun	1.	corrective - a device for treating injury or disease Synonyms: restorative
Adj.	1.	corrective - designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary
	2.	corrective - tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"

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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