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Meanings of meliorate in English

Portuguese
aperfeiçoar
Catalan
avançar
Spanish
ameliorar

To make better.

      aperfeiçoar
      Usage of meliorate in English
      1
      Every attempt to meliorate his manners and Indian notions, has failed.
      Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
      2
      Their adoption would promote the public service and meliorate the condition of the Army.
      State of the Union Addresses
      3
      Some years ago several pious individuals undertook to meliorate the condition of the prisons.
      American Institutions and Their Influence
      4
      Lords deliver lydeum lectures; ladies patronize ragged schools; committees of duchesses meliorate the condition of needlewomen.
      Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
      5
      They must suppress the workings of British philanthropy, seeking to meliorate the condition of the unfortunate West Indian slave.
      The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
      6
      It is a dictate of humanity and benevolence, after sheathing the sword, to relieve and meliorate the condition of the vanquished prisoner.
      Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
      7
      Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice.
      Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
      8
      I do not find that a succession of crops has yet been attempted; surely it would help to meliorate and improve the soil.
      A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
      9
      The Romans, therefore, had good reason to soften and meliorate this element, by conveying it a good length of way in open aqueducts.
      Travels through France and Italy
      10
      The human heart seems to be meliorated and softened by age.
      Anna St. Ives
      11
      Griswold suffered a sudden return to the meliorating humanities.
      The Price
      12
      Three Agencies for meliorating the Human Condition.
      The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society
      13
      Such Men there always have been & always will be, till human Nature itself shall be substantially meliorated.
      The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4
      14
      In this manner soils are constantly changing upon the same spot; sometimes they are meliorated, at other times impoverished.
      Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, Volume 2 (of...
      15
      But to undertake expeditions with a design of civilizing the world, and meliorating its condition, is a noble object.
      Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain J...
      16
      Blount's one meliorating softness during the years of exile had manifested itself in an effort to keep track of Debbleby.
      The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
      Frequent collocations
      Translations for meliorate
      Meliorate through the time