All 3 Uses of
rectify
in
The Magic Mountain
- At the time, many lodges went through a period of rectification and reform, in the spirit of the 'strict charges'—an explicitly irrational, mysterious, magical, alchemistic spirit, to which the higher degrees of the Scottish Rite owe their existence.
Chpt 6.8 *rectification = correction
- What, you weren't supposed to be able to rectify circumference, or turn any given straight line into a circle?†
Chpt 7.6
- His Mediterranean friend and mentor had constantly tried to rectify this situation somewhat and made a point of keeping his pedagogic problem child roughly informed about events down below; but he had not been given much of a hearing by his pupil, who while "playing king" had let his mind turn the shadows of such things into one dream or another, but had never paid any attention to the things themselves, primarily out of an arrogant preference for seeing shadows as things, and things…
Chpt 7.10rectify = correct, fix, or make right
Definition:
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(rectify as in: rectify the error) correct, fix, or make right