In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
MELIORATED
Adjective
meliorated
made better; improved
Verb
meliorated
simple past tense and past participle of meliorate
Synonyms
• ameliorated
Source: Wiktionary
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.]
Definition: 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.
Mel"io*rate, v. i.
Definition: To grow better.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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