rectifiedadj.
/ˈrɛktᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈrɛktəˌfaɪd/ 1. Made right, restored to a normal or proper condition; corrected; freed from defects or imperfections.In early use with reference to conscience, reason, will, etc., perhaps influenced by sense 2.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > put right or amended
correcta1464
mended1548
rectifieda1555
amended1574
emendate1654
correcteda1661
remediated1865
emended1882
the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > putting right a wrong or loss > put right
rectified1884
a1555 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 221 That wyth a cleane spirite and rectifyed body, we myght serue god iustly.
1625 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 233 Our..Saviour..blesse you with the testimony of a rectified conscience.
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 5 Those of more rectified Reasons, can sustaine bright and glistring discoveries to beat in upon them.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 46 A rectified Will..alone..effectively gives us the preheminence above beasts.
1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility iv. 176 A juster and more rectifyed sense of things.
1710 M. Chudleigh Ess. Several Subj. 69* Those internal Joys which spring from an inlightned Understanding, a well-regulated Judgment, a rectified Will.
1772 J. W. Fletcher Third Check Antinom. 32 A talent of living light and rectified free-agency.
1835 C. M. Sedgwick Linwoods I. xiii. 210 Strange as it may appear to those who have grown up with the rectified notions of the present day, she for the first time perceived the folly of measuring American society by a European standard.
1884 H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 158 In the minds of most, a rectified evil is equivalent to an achieved good.
1939 Ecology 20 158 Table V gives data on litters from second mating periods in 1937 which were conceived on the rectified diet of 40–50 per cent protein for comparison with such litters this year.
1998 Scotsman (Nexis) 21 May 16 At any other time the revelation that this actually happened in a Glasgow college might denote little more than a harmless and easily rectified mistake.
2. Chemistry. Purified or refined, esp. by repeated or continuous distillation; redistilled. Cf. rectify v. 3a.rectified spirit: see Compounds.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to distillation > that has undergone
distilleda1475
rectified1576
elixed1602
stillified1608
alcoholizated1651
alcoholized1651
elixireda1658
elixirated1658
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 125v He tooke one pound of the oyle of Turpentine,..& added after to it, fiue pintes (of rectified Aqua vitæ) and of Cloues.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xv. 74 This humour..doth resemble the rectified animal aquavita.
1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 608 I made the like Tryal with rectified Oyl of Turpentine.
1798 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses II. 437 In the morning give a purge with fine aloes, jalap, and myrrh, balled up with hard soap, and rectified oil of amber.
1818 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 8) II. i. xv. 12 The hypo-phosphites of potash, soda, and ammonia, are soluble..in highly rectified alcohol.
1876 R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. 563 The product so obtained is a colourless liquid, sold as ‘rectified coal naphtha’.
1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) xv. 373 Add 10 cc. of rectified alcohol and connect up to the apparatus.
1986 Times 5 Mar. 11/3 This is a good way of appreciating the difference between rectified and virgin oils.
2006 S. Jennings New Artist's Man. iii. 75 Always use double-distilled or rectified turpentine for painting purposes.
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the world > space > shape > straightness > [adjective]
rightOE
straightc1350
rightfulc1384
line-rightc1400
rule-righta1450
streckc1480
unbent1483
straight forth1536
unwried1558
steel-straighta1560
untwisted1575
uncurled1597
rectified1598
cornerless1605
uncrooked1611
unbended1648
retent1656
uninflected1713
curveless1800
arrow-straight1834
unconvoluted1839
unwarped1855
curlless1861
undistorted1881
poker-straight1949
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Thesaurarye sig. avjv/2 The rectifyede, or extendede case or pipe [Du. de rechte pijpe].
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Thesaurarye sig. bijv/1 The rectifyede Lancette, wherewith we open an Apostemation.
4. Horticulture. Of a tulip: ‘broken’ or variegated, esp. with clear-cut, regular markings. Cf. rectify v. 11. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > with specific colouring or marking
blue-flowered1597
red-flowered1629
blue-mantleda1650
rectified1665
well-broke1687
guarded1688
run1725
broken1731
pheasant-eyed1731
red-flowering1731
bizarre1753
run-off1810
unveined1826
self1833
limbate1866
chloranthous1871
albiflorous1879
laced1882
1665 J. Rea Flora i. ix. 57 The Cardinal [sc. a variety of tulip] is a low Flower, of a deep-dark red colour, sometimes feathered with white, and often all red; some of them are rectified, and come much better marked.
a1678 T. 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.
1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 894/2 If the striping [of tulip petals] is good they are said to have a good strain... A rectified tulip is synonymous with a tulip having a good strain.
1875 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 10 June 456/1 It is additionally strange that the breeder or mother colour is not simply driven or collected into beautiful markings on the rectified petals.
1914 Times 21 May 5/3 The special prize for the best pair of rectified tulips, one feathered and one flamed, is won by Mr. A. D. Hall.
1998 E. Woodhead Early Canad. Gardening viii. 159 The multicoloured forms were called ‘broken’ or ‘rectified’ tulips. These included Bizarres, with coloured streaks on a yellow ground.
5. Of an electric current: that has been converted from alternating current to direct current. Cf. rectify v. 12a.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > rectifier > [adjective] > transformed to direct current
rectified1867
1867 Proc. Royal Soc. 1866–7 15 370 The rectified current from the coil of the armature passes into the coil of the electro-magnet.
1892 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 4) iii. 38 (caption) Curve of rectified or commuted alternating current.
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.
1947 R. 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.
1987 E. H. J. Pallett Aircraft Electr. Syst. (ed. 3) iii. 53/2 Thus, when the applied voltage is an alternating quantity the barrier layer converts the current into a unidirectional flow and provides a rectified output.
2007 FEBS Lett. 581 1031/1 This result is consistent with the rectified current found for Kev channels expressed in heterologous systems.
6. Of a plan or photograph: that has been corrected for errors of perspective; (of photography) involving such correction. Cf. rectify v. 13.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map-making or surveying using photography > [adjective] > corrected or correcting for perspective error
rectified1920
rectifying1932
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [adjective] > corrected for errors of perspective
rectified1920
1920 M. N. Macleod Mapping from Air Photogr. 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.
1966 Icarus 5 411/1 Basins may be detected out to the extreme limb by rectified photography.
1975 Bull. Assoc. Preserv. Technol. 7 39 The team could, with the proper use of camera movements, produce a rectified picture of the plane being photographed.
2003 Oxoniensia 67 373 Photogrammetry or rectified photography could have been used to get a better record.
Compounds
rectified spirit n. Chemistry (also in plural) (more fully rectified spirit (also spirits) of wine, ) a mixture of ethanol and water purified by repeated distillation; spec. an azeotropic mixture containing 95.6 per cent alcohol by volume.
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1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. i. sig. K2 I iudge him of a rectified spirit,..refin'd From all the tartarous Moodes of common Men. View more context for this quotation]
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke v. sig. Rv Into euery one of them, put of the rectified spirit of wine, so much, as that it may stand ouer it three fingers thicke.
1663 R. Boyle Some Consid. Vsefvlnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. (1664) II. 348 To keep the rectified Spirit..is more uneasie, than any thing but trial would make one think.
?1708 Brit. Apollo: Q. Paper 1 No. 2. 3/1 A Varnish compos'd of Rectify'd Spirits and Gums.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 85 Add..three Ounces of rectify'd Spirits of Wine.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 376 A fine light transparent liquid, known in commerce by the name of rectified spirits.
1875 A. S. Taylor Poisons (ed. 3) 569 Nepenthe may be regarded as a solution of opium and citrate of morphia, in nearly equal parts of sherry and rectified spirit.
1955 B. C. L. Kemp Elem. Org. Chem. (new ed.) vi. 75 The crude alcohol..is subjected to careful fractional distillation, two stages of which may be necessary to produce rectified spirit.
2000 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 27 Oct. 5 She offers a concoction of Myrrh, Pimpernel water, elder-flower water, musk and rectified spirits of wine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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