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单词 melioration
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meliorationn.

Brit. /ˌmiːlɪəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmiljəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmiliəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: Middle English melioracioun, 1600s melioracion, 1600s– melioration; Scottish pre-1700 melioracioun, pre-1700 melioratioun, pre-1700 1700s– melioration.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin melioration-, melioratio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin melioration-, melioratio improvement, betterment (late 4th or early 5th cent.), improvement made to property (late 11th cent.; from late 12th cent. in British sources) < meliorat- , past participial stem of meliorare meliorate v. + -io -ion suffix1. Compare Anglo-Norman melioration , Old French melioracion (1315 (in plural) in sense 2a), Middle French melioration (15th cent. in sense 1), French mélioration (1960 in specific linguistic use). In sense 2c after pejoration n. 2.
1. Improvement, amelioration; the action or process of improving or making better; the condition of being made better; change for the better.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun]
betteringeOE
amendmentc1230
bote of beam1330
meliorationa1400
upraisingc1400
reformation?a1425
amelioration?a1450
enrichinga1513
amendsa1547
gooding1567
betterment1594
meliorization1599
endearment1612
raisure1613
betterance1614
ascenta1616
ascension1617
enrichmenta1626
improvement1625
booty beam1642
meliorating1647
bonification1652
uplift1873
work1914
pickupa1916
upgrading1920
tone-up1943
stepping1958
upgradation1979
upgrade1980
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 153 (MED) Bi þis medicyn þer comeþ..melioracioun of meuynge of lymes..more helpinge þat semeþ possible to þe leche.
a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 92 Al maner of creatur is behaldin..to wse all the..wertu that it has..to the melioracioun and augmentacioun of the gud of the self creatur.
1597 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1845) III. 939 That he hes renewit no auld tack but consent of the Generall Assemblie and melioratioun of his benefice.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §855 You must ever resort to the beginning of things for Melioration.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 47 A notable way for melioration of the Plant.
1704 R. Steele Lying Lover iv. 49 I, Sir, having found out the melioration of Metals,..am to be hang'd for't.
1772 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 184 I could not..effect any melioration of the noxious quality of this kind of air.
1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 280 Persevere in your melioration, till you are perfectly cured.
1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 205 All soils are susceptible of melioration.
1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. I. i. 7 The generations of men are not like the leaves on the trees, which fall and renew themselves without melioration or change.
1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 238 An endeavour to obtain some melioration of their lot by legal means.
1989 P. Fussell Wartime x. 131 If for Americans, at least, the Great War could sometimes be imagined as a brief quasi-athletic lark, the Second War permitted no such melioration by the spirit of adolescent optimism.
2.
a. In plural. Scots Law. Improvements made to rented property, esp. by a tenant. Also (occasionally) in singular. Now historical.
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1625 in W. Cramond Extracts Rec. Synod of Moray (1906) 13 Fourscoir libs. for the meliorations of the mans and gleib.
1680 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) I. 95 He should have retention of his tack duty till he were reimbursed of his meliorations.
1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIII. 383 The greatest bar to the improvement of the country is the smallness of the holdings, the shortness of the leases, and not having melioration for their houses, or other improvements.
1803 W. M. Morison Decisions Court of Session (1807) XXXV. 15264 It did not make the house larger than was proper for such a farm; so that, in fact, it was a melioration.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 644 A clause binding the landlord to make the necessary meliorations.
1845 R. Hunter Landlord & Tenant (ed. 2) II. 232 A proprietor stipulated in the lease to make certain meliorations, and to pay to the lessee the expense of meliorations made by him.
1982 A. D. Gibb Students' Gloss. Sc. Legal Terms (ed. 2) 55 Meliorations, the technical expression for improvements to property made by such as a tenant or liferenter. Not much used.
1989 W. M. Gordon Sc. Land Law xiv. 418 The meliorations for which recompense is sought have generally been buildings, but other improvements, such as planting or draining, found a claim.
b. gen. An improvement; a change for the better.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > instance of
improvementa1631
melioration1647
amelioration1660
improvement1675
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xxviii. 183 I concluded, that about two yeers after..he should sensibly perceive a melioration in Estate by meanes of a Wife.
1661 R. Boyle Some Specimens Attempt Chymical Exper. in Certain Physiol. Ess. sig. P3v By an Insight into Chymistry one may be enabl'd to make some Meliorations (I speak not of Transmutations) of Mineral and Metalline Bodies).
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 568 Transplanting, engrafting, and other meliorations [in horticulture].
1878 R. W. Emerson Sovereignty of Ethics in N. Amer. Rev. 126 406 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations.
1917 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 11 569 The meliorations of international law therein provided would be required of Great Britain by nonsignatory states.
1966 Amer. Lit. 38 326 Hawthorne clearly suggests that..a love of mutual respect, would have been, if not a solution, at least a melioration of the isolation of Giovanni and Beatrice.
c. Linguistics. = amelioration n. 3.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > types of semantic change > [noun]
usurpation1644
amelioration1871
pejoration1889
adequation1931
permutation1931
melioration1939
loan-shift1950
signal reaction1976
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. ix. 260 Words may change in meaning for the better (melioration).
1967 R. A. Waldron Sense & Sense Devel. vii. 156 The types of shift known as pejoration and melioration have attracted a good deal of attention from writers on semantics.
1971 Archivum Linguisticum 2 64 Roots, collocations, compounds, etc. are not categories of meaning in the same way as, say, ‘melioration/pejoration’ and the ultimate contribution of the linguist is to the definition in his own terms of such functional categories as the latter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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