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IMPROVEMENT, n. improov'ment. Advancement in moral worth, learning, wisdom, skill or other excellence; as the improvement of the mind or of the heart by cultivation; improvement in classical learning, science or mechanical skill; improvement in music; improvement in holiness. 1. Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle.2. A valuable addition; excellence added, or a change for the better; sometimes with on. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.3. Advance or progress from any state to a better. There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.4. Instruction; growth in knowledge or refinement; edification. I look upon your city as the best place of improvement.5. Use or employment to beneficial purposes; a turning to good account; as the improvement of natural advantages or spiritual privileges. A good improvement of his reason.6. Practical application; as the improvement of the doctrines and principles of a sermon. I shall make some improvement of this doctrine. Hence,7. The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement.8. Use; occupancy.9. Improvements, plu.,valuable additions or melioration, as building, clearings, drains, fences, &c., on a farm.
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IMPROVEMENT, n. improov'ment. Advancement in moral worth, learning, wisdom, skill or other excellence; as the improvement of the mind or of the heart by cultivation; improvement in classical learning, science or mechanical skill; improvement in music; improvement in holiness. 1. Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle.2. A valuable addition; excellence added, or a change for the better; sometimes with on. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.3. Advance or progress from any state to a better. There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.4. Instruction; growth in knowledge or refinement; edification. I look upon your city as the best place of improvement.5. Use or employment to beneficial purposes; a turning to good account; as the improvement of natural advantages or spiritual privileges. A good improvement of his reason.6. Practical application; as the improvement of the doctrines and principles of a sermon. I shall make some improvement of this doctrine. Hence,7. The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement.8. Use; occupancy.9. Improvements, plu.,valuable additions or melioration, as building, clearings, drains, fences, &c., on a farm. |
IM-PROVE'MENT, n. [improov'ment.]- Advancement in moral worth, learning, wisdom, skill or other excellence; as, the improvement of the mind or of the heart by cultivation; improvement in classical learning, science or mechanical skill; improvement in music; improvement in holiness.
- Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as, the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle.
- A valuable addition; excellence added, or a change for the better; sometimes with on.
The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. Addison.
- Advance or progress from any state to a better.
There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays. Addison.
- Instruction; growth in knowledge or refinement; edification.
I look upon your city as the best place of improvement. South.
- Use or employment to beneficial purposes; a turning to good account; as, the improvement of natural advantages, or spiritual privileges.
A good improvement of his reason. S. Clarke.
- Practical application; as, the improvement of the doctrines and principles of a sermon.
I shall make some improvement of this doctrine. Tillotson.
Hence,
- The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement.
- Use; occupancy.
- Improvements, plur., valuable additions or melioration, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, &c., on a farm. Kent.
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Im*prove"ment
- The act of improving; advancement or growth;
promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better;
melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads,
etc.
- The act of making profitable use or
applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a
turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine,
principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
- The state of being improved; betterment;
advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an
improvement on the old.
- Increase; growth; progress;
advance.
- Valuable additions or
betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on
premises.
- A useful addition to,
or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
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Improvement IMPROVEMENT, noun improov'ment. Advancement in moral worth, learning, wisdom, skill or other excellence; as the improvement of the mind or of the heart by cultivation; improvement in classical learning, science or mechanical skill; improvement in music; improvement in holiness. 1. Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle. 2. A valuable addition; excellence added, or a change for the better; sometimes with on. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. 3. Advance or progress from any state to a better. There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays. 4. Instruction; growth in knowledge or refinement; edification. I look upon your city as the best place of improvement 5. Use or employment to beneficial purposes; a turning to good account; as the improvement of natural advantages or spiritual privileges. A good improvement of his reason. 6. Practical application; as the improvement of the doctrines and principles of a sermon. I shall make some improvement of this doctrine. Hence, 7. The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement 8. Use; occupancy. 9. Improvements, plural , valuable additions or melioration, as building, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on a farm. |
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