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correct | orthodoxly |

As an adjective correct

is free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.

As a verb correct

is to make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.

As an adverb orthodoxly is

in a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly.

correct

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
  • With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.

    • Synonyms

    * (with good manners) well-mannered, well behaved

    Antonyms

    * (without error) incorrect, inaccurate * (with good manners) uncouth

    Derived terms

    * anatomically correct * correctly * hypercorrect * incorrect

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
    • He corrected the position of the book on the mantle.
  • (by extension) To grade (examination papers).
  • To inform (someone) of the latter's error.
    • It's rude to correct your parents.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * correctable * correction * uncorrectable

    External links

    * * * 1000 English basic words ----

    orthodoxly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a correct or proper way; conventionally; correctly.
  • * 1778 , (Abraham Tucker), The Light of Nature Pursued , III.12:
    • if, after a season of thoughtlessness, you perceive your understanding on a sudden lively to discern, and your will vigorous to pursue heavenly things, you may orthodoxly conclude there has been an effusion, not that there is one now.
  • * 1925 , (Scudder Klyce), Sins of Science , XXV.1:
    • Biology is orthodoxly the part of science that deals directly with the phenomena of living matter.
  • * 1930 , "Don Juan", , 31 Mar 1930:
    • So great was Ariel''’s success and that of the similar ''Disraeli that readers might have expected Maurois to treat Shelley's friend and fellow-poet in the same style. But no miniature in enamel is this orthodoxly lengthy, appendixed, annotated biography of Byron.
  • In a religiously orthodox way; in accordance with accepted religious doctrine.
  • * 1980 , (Agehananda Bharati), The Ochre Robe :
    • He wears a turban, he puts on his sandal mark every morning, he bathes and eats and marries and dies orthodoxly'; he probably begets children ' orthodoxly .
  • * 1990 , LP Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 , p. 91:
    • The teaching here is orthodoxly Islamic, the preoccupation with assessing the relation of works to faith is very much of the European fifteenth century.