ameliorated

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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 Böhme, Jakob

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 Meller, Henry James

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

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

He began to treat for peace, and to harmonize discordant spirits, so that affairs might be meliorated, by reason of what the Spaniards requested.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander

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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson