1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall sig. B3 Past the childish feare, feare of a stripe, Or schools correct.

1932 M. Shactman tr. L. Trotsky Probl. Chinese Revol. 198 The party will utilize quite differently the discontentment of the masses, if it considers it by reckoning with a correct political perspective.

1950 tr. Liu Shao-Chi On the Party 52 Our Party's correct political line cannot be separated from its correct organisational line.

1951 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 277 80/2 Another essential idea is the Marxist dogma that there is only one ‘correct’ line of thought and action... The central authorities define what is correct, and..the entire mass membership of any organization is expected to think and act ‘correctly’.

1953 tr. Mao Zedong On Rectification of Incorrect Ideas in Party 1 The failure of the Party's leading bodies..to educate the members along the correct line is also an important cause of the existence and growth of such incorrect ideas.

1960 T. H. E. Chen Thought Reform Chinese Intellectuals ii. 9 An ideologically correct person..is likely to overcome old habits of thought and action.

1966 Tung Chi-ping & H. Evans Thought Revolution iii. 47 Despite his ‘correct’ political attitude, the teachers singled him out for criticism.

1973 S. Davidson in Esquire July 74/1 The mood of the original feminists changed utterly... People recount the rise and fall of groups, the setting up and toppling of ‘correct political lines’, the purges and counter-purges.

1973 A. Walker in J. O'Brien Interviews with Black Writers 207 To be ‘correct’ she should consider it her duty to let ugliness reign. The most ‘incorrect’ thing about Sammy Lou is that she loves flowers... Whenever you hear a black person talking about the beauties of nature, that person is not a black person at all.

1986 H. J. Maroney in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 113 Unable to agree upon a ‘correct’ and effective programme of action, they have dwindled into theoreticism, split, or been reduced to passivity.

1990 Taxation & Environmental Policy (Inst. Fiscal Stud. Commentary No. 19) 3 Ideally, the economically correct procedure in introducing an environmental tax would be to value the economic costs of activities which take place outside of any market, and to calculate a tax level per unit output to reflect these costs.

1991 Raritan Summer 41 Are we..in the business of granting degrees that mean: ‘Your son or daughter has turned out correct. Politically, morally, socially correct; at least, by this year's standards.’

1991 New Yorker 16 Dec. 120/2 Not only the merchandise but all the materials used in the construction of the store are about as environmentally correct as is possible these days.

1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 398/1 Potato chips are not exactly in style—they are too fatty and too salty to be N.C. (‘nutritionally correct’, as determined by health-food killjoys).

1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 6 Jan. b2/4 For the most part, message toys are geared to parents, not to children, and most environmental- and gender-correct toys haven't made much of a dent.

1994 USA Weekend 9 Jan. 28/2 How do you pack the car for an eco-correct family vacation?

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 9596 Ilka rightwyse lered man Þat my defaute here correcte can.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. Prol. f. ii^v Besechynge hym..Where any Errour in this by hym is sayne It to correct.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xii. sig. e.ii Shortly he..correcked theyr errour.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vii. §21 Those..who sought the truth, being ready, when they found it, to correct their error, were not hereticks.

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 149 The means of detecting the errors of instruments are much more powerful than those of correcting them.

1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. ii Eternal Jove..That with thy gloomy hand corrects the heaven, When airy creatures war amongst themselves.

1657 T. Hetley Rep. & Cases 50 By the industry of man they [beasts] are corrected, and their savagenesse abated.

1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 131 Sometimes his Pruning-hook corrects the Vines, And the loose Straglers to their Ranks confines.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 99 It..correcteth those [humors] that are putrified.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 130 I..was obliged to soothe this sore since I could not correct it.

1883 A. Dobson Old World Idylls 19 People of rank, to correct their ‘tone’, Went out of town to Marybone.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxvi. 353 Yet ought it [Hellebor] not to be giuen before it be prepared and corrected..with long pepper.

a1600 R. Hooker in Wks. (1845) I. 580 O happy mixture wherein things also contrary do so qualify and correct the one the danger of the other's excess.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 183 The Sun which us'd to correct the rigour and inclemency of the weather, is now banisht from their Horizon.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 81 Its Quality of relaxing too much may be corrected by boiling it with some Animal Substances.

1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 76 The sweet savour of the honey corrects the bitterness of the plant.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 171 The heart..corrects the folly of the head.

1856 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 17 ii. 375 This corrected the mossy tendency of the soil.