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  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Meliorate  \Mel"io*rate\  (m[=e]l"y[-o]*r[=a]t),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p. 
  p.  {Meliorated}  (-r[=a]`t[e^]d);  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Meliorating}.]  [L.  melioratus  p.  p.  of  meliorare  to 
  meliorate,  fr  melior  better;  akin  to  Gr  ma^llon  rather, 
  ma`la  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  bening  light  of  revelation  has  had  a 
  meliorating  influence  on  mankind.  --Washington. 




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