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Definition of Meliorates
1. meliorate [v] - See also: meliorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meliorates
Literary usage of Meliorates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"[< LL. meliorates, pp. of meliorate (> It. ... One who or that which meliorates
or maíces better. ..."
2. The Creation of Wealth: Modern Efficiency Methods Analyzed and Applied by James Harry Lockwood (1915)
"This also opens up new economic fields (number 1), saves labor (number 2), saves
material (number 3), saves time (number 5), and indirectly meliorates ..."
3. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Josiah Conder (1844)
"Then the view of the cross, as the grand display of all the harmonious perfections
of the Godhead, softens, humbles, and meliorates the heart: while the ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"In plants, in beasts, in man's imperial race, An alien mixture meliorates the
breed; Hence canes, that sickened dwarfish on the plain. ..."
5. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... after Dr. Johnson had written about him with such ardent and eloquent affection,
he could at a long subsequent period, when time generally meliorates ..."
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