corrective

Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.

As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.

Since the accident I've had to wear a corrective brace.

Qualifying; limiting.

The Psalmist interposeth a caution in this corrective particle, Yea, Happy. It hath the force of a revocation, whereby he seems to retract what went before, not simply and absolutely, but in a certain degree […]

Something that corrects or counteracts something.

alkalies are correctives of acids

penalties are correctives of immoral conduct

Limitation; restriction.

What Correctives there may be supposed that may check and restrain that Increase of Mankind, that otherwise according to the ordinary course of Nature would have obtained in the World.

It is a maxim established upon good reason, that every thing exceeding its just bounds, is hurtful to nature. The best of things are not excepted in this general rule. Even the necessary supports of life, if not qualified and made wholesome by this corrective, may prove the procurers of death.