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Meliorate   Listen
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Meliorate  v. t.  (past & past part. meliorated; pres. part. meliorating)  To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable. "Nature by art we nobly meliorate." "The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind."



Meliorate  v. i.  To grow better.






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"Meliorate" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing, wants all the material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power. The formidable mischief will only make the more useful slave. And if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of Nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert, until at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna. He will convert the Furies into Muses, and the ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various



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