meliorate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of meliorate
1545–55; < Latin meliōrātus (past participle of meliōrāre ) to make better, improve, equivalent to meliōr- (stem of melior ) better + -ātus -ate 1
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“I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge, more happily calculated than any other, to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free People.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
He said it was too late to plant maize, and therefore he should sow turnips, which would help to meliorate and prepare it for next year.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin
It is no less the characteristic of real friendship to endeavour to meliorate than to preserve from sufferings.
From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Ballou, Hosea
Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders by Lord, John
These are the men of active wisdom, who lead armies to victory, and kingdoms to prosperity; or discover and improve the sciences, which meliorate and adorn the condition of humanity.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Such Men there always have been & always will be, till human Nature itself shall be substantially meliorated.
From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo
The human heart seems to be meliorated and softened by age.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
In them were stated various mitigatory facts in their favor; and the meliorated character of the criminal code at home was also strongly urged.
From Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages by Anonymous
It has greatly meliorated the condition of the laborious part, that is to say, of the mass of every community, by procuring for them a day of weekly rest.
From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William
We pass over the administration of Geary, the third of the Kansas Governors,—a period in which the ravages of the marauders were continued, but under meliorated circumstances.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
And many a thousand summers My apples ripened well, And light from meliorating stars With firmer glory fell.
From May-Day and Other Pieces by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Old cheese has a remarkable effect in meliorating the apple when eaten; probably from the volatile alkali or ammonia of the cheese neutralizing its acid.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
Advancing years presented a softening, meliorating, ripening influence.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas
Blount's one meliorating softness during the years of exile had manifested itself in an effort to keep track of Debbleby.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis
We thought that they were capable of receiving and meliorating, and above all of preserving, the accessions of science and literature, as the order of Providence should successively produce them.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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