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

I do not find that a succession of crops has yet been attempted; surely it would help to meliorate and improve the soil.

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

We then fled to the country, and there only time could meliorate the deep-consuming grief by which he had become wholly possessed.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Now, our Government has never departed from its purpose and its policy, to meliorate the law of nations, so as to extirpate this business of private war on the ocean.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton

Among the various improvements which struggling humanity has gradually engrafted on the belligerent code, none have contributed more to diminish the calamities of war, than those which meliorate the condition of prisoners.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Among the better classes conventionality has, doubtless, somewhat meliorated their condition.

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

Their opposition will only multiply its millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man through the civilized world, will be finally and greatly meliorated.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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

Though meliorated much since it first gave birth to man, it is not now fitted to nurture beings as refined as it will be centuries hence.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

Griswold suffered a sudden return to the meliorating humanities.

From The Price by Francis Lynde

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

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

And many a thousand summers My apples ripened well, And light from meliorating stars With firmer glory fell.

From May-Day and Other Pieces by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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