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A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Rectify

to refine or purify spirit lation, with the aid of certain herbs, essences, and other flavoring ingredients. More strictly, to separate the lighter portions of any liquid, and render pure and homogeneous any alcohol, ether, or oil, by repeated distillation. In geometry, to construct a straight line equal in length to a definite portion of. (Said (Said of a curve.) To rectify the globe in astronomy or geometry, to bring the sun's place in the ecliptic on the globe to the brass meridian, or to adjust it in order to prepare it for the solution of a proposed problem.

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