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

Is it true that the lapse of time, the cessation of conflicting interests, the woful experience of the evils resulting from party rage, have had no sort of influence gradually to meliorate their minds?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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

He said it was too late to plant maize, and therefore he should sow turnips, which would help to meliorate and prepare it for next year.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin

To this he added personal efforts to meliorate their condition, which resulted in promises from Turkish officials and the Patriarch of better treatment, promises that were by no means fulfilled.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Anderson, Rufus