Dictionary De - En
De - Es
De - Pt| English Dictionary: meliorating | by the DICT Development Group |
| 1 result for meliorating | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
|
Meliorate \Mel"io*rate\ (m[emac]l"y[osl]*r[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Meliorated} (-r[amac]`t[ecr]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. | |
