Crossword clues for meliorated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Nature by art we nobly meliorate.
--Denham.
The pure and benign light of revelation has had a
meliorating influence on mankind.
--Washington.
Wiktionary
made better; improved v
(en-past of: meliorate)
Usage examples of "meliorated".
What improvements they have had in their passage (as it is said some liquors are meliorated by crossing the sea) I cannot tell.
They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they had then settled forever.
The days when even those harsh customs, in practice, were often meliorated by kinder—or, at least, laxer—potentates.
The days when even those harsh customs, in practice, were often meliorated by kinderor, at least, laxerpotentates.