Meliorating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meliorate \Mel"io*rate\ (m[=e]l"y[-o]*r[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
     p. {Meliorated} (m[=e]l"y[-o]*r[=a]`t[e^]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.
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           Nature by art we nobly meliorate.        --Denham.
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           The pure and benign light of revelation has had a
           meliorating influence on mankind.        --Washington.
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