meliorate

• I'm no older fogey, but a momentous instance was spent craning my nous in for a meliorate view. —  Planet Malaysia
• Darker is meliorate - Users crapper wager their laptop screens in modify the brightest sunlight. —  www.awesomeblogs.com
• And if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of Nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert, until at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• It was never the design of Providence to feed man without his own concurrence; we have from nature only what we cannot provide for ourselves; she gives us wild fruits, which art must meliorate, and drossy metals, which labour must refine Particular metals are valuable, because they are scarce; and they are scarce, because the mines that yield them are emptied in time. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
• 'Tis inhuman to want faith in the power of education, since to meliorate is the law of Nature; and men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860

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