meliorated

That said, let us not forget that many ‘liberal’ thinkers — and anarchists — have argued that the human condition can be meliorated, even perfected, without claiming that ‘socialist man’ is the end in view.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

That said, let us not forget that many ‘liberal’ thinkers — and anarchists — have argued that the human condition can be meliorated, even perfected, without claiming that ‘socialist man’ is the end inview.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

That said, let us not forget that many ‘liberal’ thinkers — and anarchists — have argued that the human condition can be meliorated, even perfected, without claiming that ‘socialist man’ is the end inview.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

That said, let us not forget that many ‘liberal’ thinkers — and anarchists — have argued that the human condition can be meliorated, even perfected, without claiming that ‘socialist man’ is the end in view.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

Thus, the cronyism, nepotism, inefficiency and fraud inherent in democracy is largely meliorated by law and political mechanisms in America and Europe, but in Asia those remedies are still developing.

Asia's 'Democratic Crisis' 2008

The air in summer is reckoned unwholesome by the exhalations arising from stagnant water in the neighbourhood of the city, which stands in the midst of a fertile plain, low and marshy: yet these marshes have been considerably drained, and the air is much meliorated.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The love of power was his ruling passion; — with him no gentle or generous sentiment meliorated the harshness of authority, or directed it to acts of beneficence.

A Sicilian Romance 2004

The potatoes, which had first been brought from the Cape of Good Hope, were greatly meliorated by change of soil; and, with proper cultivation, would be superior to those produced in most other countries.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

A few wild fruits are sometimes procured, among which is the small purple apple mentioned by Cook, and a fruit which has the appearance of a grape, though in taste more like a green gooseberry, being excessively sour: probably were it meliorated by cultivation, it would become more palatable.

The Expedition to Botany Bay 2003

The potatoes, which had first been brought from the Cape of Good Hope, were greatly meliorated by change of soil; and, with proper cultivation, would be superior to those produced in most other countries.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003