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 did this very unwillingly, for it was his desire to do every thing in his power to meliorate the condition of his Protestant friends.
From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
We then fled to the country, and there only time could meliorate the deep-consuming grief by which he had become wholly possessed.
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
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 John N. Reynolds
Among the various improvements which struggling humanity has gradually engrafted on the belligerent code, none have contributed more to diminish the calamities of war, than those which meliorate the condition of prisoners.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
The human heart seems to be meliorated and softened by age.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
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 William Paley
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 Harry Alonzo Cushing
Though meliorated much since it first gave birth to man, it is not now fitted to nurture beings as refined as it will be centuries hence.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
That something the manure of birds, meliorated and altered by time, had supplied, and lo! the glorious results were before his eyes.
From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper
She is peculiarly adapted to carry forward enterprises which have to do with meliorating the condition of society.
From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Justin D. Fulton
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 Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby meliorating their condition.
From No Treason, Vol. VI. The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner
I trust that a brighter future is to come, not from the desolation, but from gradual, meliorating changes of the present.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot
But to undertake expeditions with a design of civilizing the world, and meliorating its condition, is a noble object.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis
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