MELIORATE

meliorate. Meliorate, v.t. to make better, mend, improve, enrich

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Mel″io‐rate (mēl″yō̍‐rāt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meliorated (–rā′tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Meliorating.] [[L. melioratus, p. p. of meliorare to meliorate, fr. melior better; akin to Gr. μα̑λλον rather, μάλα very. Cf. Ameliorate.]] To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable. Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham. The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. Washington.