Definition of Meliorating

1. Verb. (present participle of meliorate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meliorating

1. meliorate [v] - See also: meliorate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meliorating

melilites
melilot
melilotic
melilotic acid
melilots
melilotus
meline
melinite
melinites
melioidosis
melioidotic
meliorate
meliorated
meliorater
meliorates
meliorating (current term)
melioration
meliorations
meliorative
meliorator
meliorators
meliorism
meliorisms
meliorist
melioristic
meliorists
meliority
meliphagan
meliphagous
meliphanite

Literary usage of Meliorating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"(meliorating Act of Dominica, passed in 1788 — revived and made perpetual in 1793. ... See also the Grenada meliorating Act, Clause 14, and the Bahama Ait, ..."

2. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"(meliorating Act of Dominica, passed in 1788— revived and made perpetual in 1793. ... See also the Grenada meliorating Act, Clause 14, and the Bahama Ait, ..."

3. The Presbyterian Magazine by William Neill (1822)
"834 American Society for meliorating MAT, gat ion was dismissed, Christians were requested to retire to an upper room, and spend a few minutes in prayer; ..."

4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1835)
"The scheme of Colonization, indeed,—any more than the design of meliorating the condition of that people at large,—could not have been destroyed. ..."

5. Negro Slavery by Zachary Macaulay (1823)
"... of the colonial legislatures were induced so far to yield a decent compliance with the Royal requisition, as to pass what they called meliorating acts. ..."

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