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

Some years ago several pious individuals undertook to meliorate the condition of the prisons.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

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 Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

It has been thought by many that frosts meliorate the ground, and that they are in general salubrious to mankind.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

These are the men of active wisdom, who lead armies to victory, and kingdoms to prosperity; or discover and improve the sciences, which meliorate and adorn the condition of humanity.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus