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
It is not amended institutions, it is not improved education, it is not another selection of individuals for union, that can meliorate the said result, but the basis of the union must be changed.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
The face of the planet cools and dries, the races meliorate, and man is born.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
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
To meliorate the condition of this almost countless multitude of our fellow-creatures, is among the first duties of every good man.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
But it is the author's law and the author's order that are in dispute—his transmutation of species, the higher classes emerging from and partly annihilating the lower, under meliorated conditions of being.
From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous
It has greatly meliorated the condition of the laborious part, that is to say, of the mass of every community, by procuring for them a day of weekly rest.
From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley
In this manner soils are constantly changing upon the same spot; sometimes they are meliorated, at other times impoverished.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by James Hutton
The rice grounds are meliorated merely by letting water into them; but for the other grains, where the soil requires it, they use dung, night-soil, ashes, and the like.
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
Blount's one meliorating softness during the years of exile had manifested itself in an effort to keep track of Debbleby.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush 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
But to undertake expeditions with a design of civilizing the world, and meliorating its condition, is a noble object.
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
Yet the pious admonitions of her father, and the example of her cousin, assisted by the meliorating influence of time, had a gradual though slow effect, in changing grief into meek resignation.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
Advancing years presented a softening, meliorating, ripening influence.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
