What does meliorate mean?
Definitions for meliorate
ˈmil yəˌreɪt, ˈmi li ə-me·lio·rate
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Princeton's WordNet
better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorateverb
to make better
"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
better, improve, ameliorate, meliorateverb
get better
"The weather improved toward evening"
Wiktionary
meliorateverb
To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.
Etymology: From melior "better"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Meliorateverb
To better; to improve.
Etymology: meliorer, Fr. from melior.
Grafting meliorates the fruit; for that the nourishment is better prepared in the stock than in the crude earth. Francis Bacon.
But when we graft, or buds inoculate,
Nature by art we nobly meliorate. John Denham.A man ought by no means to think, that he should be able so much as to alter or meliorate the humour of an ungrateful person by any acts of kindness. Robert South, Sermons.
Castration serves to meliorate the flesh of those beasts that suffer it. John Graunt.
Much labour is requir’d in trees.
Well must the ground be digg’d, and better dress’d,
New soil to make, and meliorate the rest. John Dryden, Virg.
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meliorate
Meliorate is a verb that means to make better or improve something. It often refers to gradual or ongoing improvement rather than a sudden or drastic change.
Webster Dictionary
Meliorateverb
to make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable
Meliorateverb
to grow better
Etymology: [L. melioratus, p. p. of meliorare to meliorate, fr. melior better; akin to Gr. ma^llon rather, ma`la very. Cf. Ameliorate.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Meliorate
mē′lyo-rāt, v.t. to make better.—v.i. to grow better.—ns. Meliorā′tion, the act of making or becoming better; Meliorā′tor, an improver; Mē′liorism, the doctrine that the world is capable of improvement, as opposed to Optimism and Pessimism; Mē′liorist, one who holds this doctrine; Melior′ity, the state of being better: betterness. [L. meliorāre, -ātum, to make better.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of meliorate in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of meliorate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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