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rectified, ppl. a.|ˈrɛktɪfaɪd|
[f. rectify v.]
1. a. Made right, corrected. Also (in some cases perh. directly transf. from 2), cleared from defects or imperfections, refined.
Common in 17th c., esp. of conscience, reason, will, etc.
1555Philpot in Coverdale Lett. Mart. (1564) 221 That wyth a cleane spirite and rectifyed body, we myght serue god iustly. 1612Donne Lett. (1651) 233 Our..Saviour blesse you with the testimony of a rectified conscience. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 5 Those of more rectified Reasons, can sustaine bright and glistring discoveries to beat in upon them. 1707Norris Treat. Humility iv. 176 A juster and more rectifyed sense of things. 1771Fletcher Checks Wks. 1795 II. 289 A talent of living light and rectified free agency. 1884H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 158 In the minds of most, a rectified evil is equivalent to an achieved good.
b. Photogrammetry. Designating a plan or photograph which has been corrected for errors of perspective (cf. rectify v. 1 c).
1920M. N. Macleod Mapping from Air Photographs i. iv. 27 A ‘rectified’ print of the negative is obtained which is true to scale all over and can be traced on to the map. 1969G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs xv. 245 All five or nine photographs are printed fused together into one image, the obliques being ‘transferred’ or rectified into vertical views before printing.
2. Chem. Purified or refined by renewed distillation; redistilled. Chiefly used of spirit.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xv. 74 This humour..doth resemble the rectified animal aquavita. 1667Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 608, I made the like Tryal with rectified Oyl of Turpentine. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 90 Three Ounces of rectified Spirits of Wine. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 376 A fine light transparent liquid, known in commerce by the name of rectified spirits. 1876Harley Mat. Med. (ed. 6) 326 Rectified Spirit is alcohol containing 16 per cent. by weight, or 11 per cent. by volume of water, obtained by the distillation of fermented saccharine fluids.
3.
†a. Straightened, straight. Obs. rare.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. b ij b/1 The rectifyede Lancette, wherewith we open an Apostemation. Ibid. 16 b/2 The rectifyede or extendede can or pipe.
b. Of an electric current: (see rectify 7 c).
1892S. P. Thompson Dynamo-Electric Machinery (ed. 4) iii. 38 The currents are now ‘rectified’, or ‘redressed’, as our continental neighbours say, but are not continuous. Ibid. (caption) Curve of rectified or commuted alternating current. 1893Sloane Stand. Electr. Dict. 164. 1910 G. W. Pierce Princ. Wireless Telegr. xviii. 197 The rectified current obtained by applying the alternating voltage V could be read on the galvanometer. 1947R. Lee Electronic Transformers & Circuits iii. 48 With large values of capacitance, the rectified voltage..increases to within a few per cent of the peak voltage. 1958New Scientist 10 July 342/2 A wire ‘tickled’ a crystal of silicon, and when the alternating radio signal was applied to the combination the current would flow only in one direction: this ‘rectified’ current could then be used to work a Morse receiver. 1965Wireless World July 335/1 The rectified current does not then cause potential changes in the source.
4. Of tulip flowers: having variegated colouring caused by a virus affecting the plant.
1659T. Hanmer Garden Bk. (1933) 21 When they [sc. the colours of tulips] streame away, as they doe ever wholly in flowers perfected, or rectified (as the tearme is) the leaves retaine not the least blew or yellow in them. 1850Beck's Florist 23 Some say, that as they broke or became rectified, another number was given them. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 259/2 The breeder bulbs and their offsets may grow on for years producing only self-coloured flowers, but after a time..some of the progeny ‘break’, that is, produce flowers with the variegation which is so much prized. The flower is then said to be ‘rectified’. 1911[see Rembrandt]. 1929A. D. Hall Bk. Tulip v. 99 This change [in colouring] is called ‘breaking’, the flower is termed ‘broken’ or ‘rectified’, while the original form is known as a ‘breeder’. 1948[see Rembrandt]. |