English-Thai Dictionary
meliorate
VT บรรเทา แบ่งเบา amend correct improve ban-tao
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
MELIORATE
v.t.[L. melior, better. ] To make better; to improve; as, to meliorate fruit by grafting, or soil by cultivation. Civilization has done much, but christianity more, to meliorate the condition of men in society. Nature by art we nobly meliorate.
MELIORATE
v.i.To grow better.
MELIORATED
pp. Made better; improved.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
MELIORATE
Mel "io *rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meliorated; p. pr. & vb. n.Meliorating. ] Etym: [L. melioratus, p. p. of meliorare to meliorate, fr. melior better; akin to Gr. Ameliorate. ]
Defn: 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.
Defn: To grow better.
MELIORATER
MELIORATER Mel "io *ra `ter, n.
Defn: Same as Meliorator.
New American Oxford Dictionary
meliorate
mel io rate |ˈmēlēəˌrāt ˈmiljəreɪt | ▶verb formal another term for ameliorate. DERIVATIVES mel io ra tion |ˌmēlēəˈrāSHən |noun, mel io ra tive |-ˌrātiv |adjective ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from late Latin meliorat- ‘improved, ’ from the verb meliorare, based on melior ‘better. ’
Oxford Dictionary
meliorate
meliorate |ˈmiːlɪəreɪt | ▶verb formal another term for ameliorate. DERIVATIVES melioration |-ˈreɪʃ (ə )n |noun, meliorative |-rətɪv |adjective ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from late Latin meliorat- ‘improved ’ from the verb meliorare, based on melior ‘better ’.
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