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Definition of Meliorate

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

Meaning of Meliorate from wikipedia

- Melioration theory in behavioral psychology is a theoretical algorithm that predicts the matching law. Melioration theory is used as an explanation for...
- Dinamo 1960 : Renamed Yenbek 1961 : Renamed Metallurg 1981 : Renamed Meliorator 1992 : Renamed Zhiger 1992 : Founded as SKIF-****nal 1993 : Renamed SKIF-Ordabasy...
- Volna 1969 : Renamed Avtomobilist 1974 : Renamed Orbita 1979 : Renamed Meliorator 1990 : Renamed Kaisar 1996 : Renamed Kaisar-Munai for sponsorship reasons...
- ****ociations of a word are swept away; see Pejorative#Pejoration and melioration This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Amelioration...
- Mechanization Engineers (TIIAME), formerly Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration (TIIME) (Uzbek: "Toshkent Irrigatsiya va Qishloq Xo‘jaligini Mexanizatsiyalash...
- Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the...
- and eventually is adopted in a non-pejorative sense, this is called melioration or amelioration. One example is the shift in meaning of the word nice...
- or "beer"; with a jug   as the determinative. All these words have a meliorative connotation: "good, beautiful, perfect". The Concise Dictionary of Middle...
- an example of the "dysphemism treadmill" or semantic drift known as melioration, wherein former pejoratives become inoffensive and commonplace. Because...
- FC Meliorator Zhitkovichi is a Belarusian football club based in Zhitkovichi, Gomel Oblast. The team pla**** in the Belarusian Second League. The club was...