The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beneficiate
Beneficiate \Ben`e*fi"ci*ate\, v. t. [Sp. beneficiar to benefit, to work mines.] (Mining) To reduce (ores). -- Ben`e*fi`ci*a"tion (?), n.
Wiktionary
beneficiate
vb. (context mining obsolete English) To reduce (ores).
WordNet
beneficiate
v. process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction
Usage examples of "beneficiate".
Beneficiated pieces of comet stuff were, as a rule, set on trajectories that took them from the Kuiper Belt into Lunar orbit, there to be refined and sent down.