Corrector
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A Corrector is one who removes or rectifies errors. The word is derived from the Latin title correctōr, from verb corrigěre, meaning "an action to rectify, to make right a wrong."
Apart from the general sense of anyone who corrects mistakes, it has been used as, or part of (some commonly shortened again to Corrector), various specific titles and offices, sometimes quite distant from the original meaning.
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Secular offices
Roman Antiquity
- A Corrector originally was an extraordinal official, send by the higher authorities (especially the state, e.g. the Emperor) to check on and take over from lower -especially municipal- officials against whom serious suspicions were pending
- Corrector Provinciae became one of the less prestigious -permanent!- titles of civilian governors (hierarchically under the Vicarius of a diocese) of certain Roman provinces, e.g. Provincia Augustamnica in Egypt (his five colleague-governors under the Praefectus Augustalis were styled Praeses);
- In various municipia, corrector became the permanent style of a permanent single chief magistrate (traditionally there had been collegial systems, e.g. two Consules of Duumviri), as a 7th century (i.e. Byzantine) source attests for 13 cities in the Egyptian province Augustamnica Prima.
Feudal times
- Corrector of the Press
Ecclesiastic (Catholic) titles
- In the Roman Curia
- In the regular order of the Minimi it was the style of Superiors at the central level, titled Corrector General, and the province, titled Corrector Provincial
Also, the word was also used as the title of several publications, some of which are quite famous, such as the 19th book, also known as Medicus, of the Ancient canons.
