Having the power to correct or improve; corrective; serving to reform or amend.
From Latin corrigens, present participle of corrigere 'to correct,' with the agent suffix -ent (from Latin -ens) denoting something that has a particular quality or function.
In old medical texts, certain herbs were marked 'corrigent'—they were believed to have corrective powers that could fix imbalances in the body's humors.
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