meliorate

American  

[meel-yuh-reyt, mee-lee-uh-] / ˈmil yəˌreɪt, ˈmi li ə- /

verb (used with or without object)

meliorated, meliorating

1. ameliorate.

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meliorate British  

/ ˈmiːlɪəˌreɪt, ˈmiːlɪərətɪv /

verb

1. a variant of ameliorate

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Other Word Forms

• meliorable adjective
• meliorative adjective
• meliorator noun
• unmeliorated adjective

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

Example Sentences

“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

This Howard felt, and, by his efforts to meliorate their condition, he became the acknowledged prince of philanthropists, and earned an immortal and sacred fame.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.

Let us never relax in our exertions to promote the emancipation, and meliorate the condition of slaves, till every human being in these United States shall equally enjoy, all the blessings of our free Institutions.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various

Rather let us say that that is very natural which nature permits us to meliorate in her handiwork.

From The Training of a Public Speaker by Kleiser, Grenville

The war concluded, his attention was directed to Italy, and he sought to meliorate the condition of that country; but Austria would not hear even of the discussion of Italian affairs.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various