MELIORIZE VERB to make better; to improve; to grow better ...1598 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin melior (better) + -ize FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1598 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...I onlye desire this one thinge of them, that they woulde vouchsafe to meliorize the same, as I certaynlye knowe they well can, and doe not retayne their owne commodity therof..." From: The Frenche Chirurgerye; or, All the Manualle Operations of Chirurgerye, with divers, & sundrye Figures, and amongst the rest, certayne nuefownde Instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operations of Chirurgerye - Jacques Guillemeau Translated by A.M.
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