Crossword clues for corrector
corrector
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corrector \Cor*rect"or\ (k?r-r?kt"?r), n. [L.] One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.
Wiktionary
alt. One that corrects. n. One that corrects.
Wikipedia
A corrector (English plural correctors) is a person who or object that practices correction, usually by removing or rectifying errors.
The word is originally a Roman title corrector, derived from the Latin verb corrigere, meaning "to make straight, set right, bring into order."
Apart from the general sense of anyone who corrects mistakes, it has been used as, or part of (some commonly shortened again to Corrector), various specific titles and offices, sometimes quite distant from the original meaning.
Usage examples of "corrector".
Aldus himself was the first president of the organization, and the members included readers and correctors of the Aldine Press, priests and doctors, the cultured nobility of Venice, Padua, Rome, Bologna, and Lucca, Greek scholars from Candia, and even the great Erasmus from Rotterdam.
This was as much as to tell me that he was an adroit sharper, or, in other words, a skilful corrector of fortune's mistakes.
Of these, three were governed by proconsuls, thirty-seven by consulars, five by correctors, and seventy-one by presidents.
And the subordinate care of justice and the revenue was delegated to seven consulars, three correctors, and five presidents, who governed the fifteen regions of Italy according to the principles, and even the forms, of Roman jurisprudence.
She squinted at the top of the flimsy, peering to make out a code sequence that Nancia could read perfectly well with the vision correctors damping down movement and enhancing blurred letters.
He is a great teacher, a corrector of morals, a censor of vice, and a commender of virtue.