meliorate
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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
His father was much pleased to see his son endeavour to make himself agreeable in ladies’ society; he thought it augured a good sign, and would be conducive to meliorate and refine his manners.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield
Lords deliver lydeum lectures; ladies patronize ragged schools; committees of duchesses meliorate the condition of needlewomen.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
To meliorate the condition of this almost countless multitude of our fellow-creatures, is among the first duties of every good man.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
Will this rapid intellectual progress tend ultimately to meliorate the condition of mankind?
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The rice grounds are meliorated merely by letting water into them; but for the other grains, where the soil requires it, they use dung, night-soil, ashes, and the like.
We pass over the administration of Geary, the third of the Kansas Governors,—a period in which the ravages of the marauders were continued, but under meliorated circumstances.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
Among the better classes conventionality has, doubtless, somewhat meliorated their condition.
From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne
Nevertheless, man's ever active ingenuity constantly increases the number of meliorated contrivances.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler
But it is the author's law and the author's order that are in dispute—his transmutation of species, the higher classes emerging from and partly annihilating the lower, under meliorated conditions of being.
From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous
One of his meliorating comforts had been the thought that however bitter his own disappointment was, Elinor at least was happy.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
Agriculture appeared to me to be in a highly improved state: there are artificial grasses and meliorating crops.
From A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium by Richard Boyle Bernard
Where shall we trace him next, the migrant man, To try once more his meliorating plan?
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
Perhaps next in importance in meliorating the condition of the slaves, is the adoption of regulations for their religious instruction, and the education of their children.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
Mr. Buxton's public life was devoted to meliorating the condition of the unfortunate classes of society.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
