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Webster 1913 Edition

Rection

Rec′tion

(r?k′sh?n)

,

Noun.

[L.

rectio

, fr.

regere

to rule or govern.]

(Gram.)

See

,

Noun.

, 7.

Gibbs.

Definition 2025

rection

rection

English

Noun

rection ‎(plural rections)

(grammar, archaic) regimen; government
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
  There has been a strong tendency, which is now greatly diminished, to employ forms in ing with the rection of a verb, even when preceded by an article; as, 'The mixing them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction.'