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 7.6rectify = correct, fix, or make right
- 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 7.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(rectify as in: rectify the error) correct, fix, or make right
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Specialized definitions of rectify include:
- chemistry: purify (e.g., via repeated distillation)
- manufacturing: separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
- electronics: convert alternate current into direct current