meliorate

“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

They refine the mind, they elevate views, they meliorate passions and keep alive affections.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various

These men left their first country to improve their condition; they quit their resting-place to meliorate it still more; fortune awaits them everywhere, but happiness they cannot attain.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

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

That we have greatly improved on the opinions and practices of our ancestors, is quite as certain as that there will be occasion to meliorate the legacy of morals which we shall transmit to posterity.

From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper

The strength of the stalk is also diffused by it through the leaves, and the whole mass becomes equally meliorated.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Henry James Meller

The potatoes, which had first been brought from the Cape of Good Hope, were greatly meliorated by change of soil; and, with proper cultivation, would be superior to those produced in most other countries.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

So that Nature hereby is only advanced and meliorated, and the Light thereof, or human Reason, by being kept within its due bounds, and regulated by a superior Light, is only made useful.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme

Tupia had much meliorated the root of the coccos, by giving them a long dressing in his country oven, but they were so small that we did not think them an object for the ship.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

That something the manure of birds, meliorated and altered by time, had supplied, and lo! the glorious results were before his eyes.

From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper

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

Griswold suffered a sudden return to the meliorating humanities.

From The Price by Francis Lynde

Old cheese has a remarkable effect in meliorating the apple when eaten; probably from the volatile alkali or ammonia of the cheese neutralizing its acid.

From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Where shall we trace him next, the migrant man, To try once more his meliorating plan?

From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow

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