conrectio

correctĭo ( conr- ), ōnis, f. [corrigo], an amendment, improvement, correction.

I.

In gen. (rare, but in good prose):

correctio et emendatio philosophiae veteris,

Cic. Fin. 4, 9, 21; cf.:

veteris Academiae,

id. Ac. 1, 12, 43:

quādam adhibita,

id. Off. 3, 2, 7:

morum,

Suet. Tib. 42; id. Dom. 8:

delicto dolere, correctione gaudere,

Cic. Lael. 24, 90.—

II.

Esp., as a rhet. figure, the recalling of a word in order to use a stronger or more significant one in its place, Gr. epanorthôsis, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204:

correctio est, quae tollit id, quod dictum est, et pro eo, id, quod magis idoneum videtur, reponit,

Auct. Her. 4, 26, 36; Quint. 9, 1, 30; 9, 3, 88.