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Moor (m�r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moored (m�rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooring.] [Prob. fr. D. marren to tie, fasten, or moor a ship. See .] 1. (Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
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2. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly. Brougham.
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Moor, v. i. To cast anchor; to become fast.
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On oozy ground his galleys moor. Dryden.
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Moorage (?), n. A place for mooring.
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Moorball (?), n. (Bot.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Ægagropila) which forms a globular mass.
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Moorband (?), n. See .
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Mooress (?), n. A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
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moorfowl, moor fowl n. (Zoöl.) 1. A reddish-brown grouse (Lagopus Scoticus) of upland moors of Great Britain; the European ptarmigan, or red grouse, also called the moorgame.
Syn. -- red grouse, moorbird, moorgame, Lagopus scoticus.
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2. The European heath grouse. See under .
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moorgame n. (Zoöl.) The .
Syn. -- red grouse, , moorbird, Lagopus scoticus.
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moorhen n. (Zoöl.) 1. A black gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) that inhabits ponds and lakes.
Syn. -- Gallinula chloropus.
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2. The female of the ; the moor hen.
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Mooring, n. 1. The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
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2. That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
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3. pl. The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
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And the tossed bark in moorings swings. Moore.
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Coloq. Mooring block (Naut.), a heavy block of cast iron sometimes used as an anchor for mooring vessels.
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Moorish, a. [From 2d .] Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. “Moorish fens.” Thomson.
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Moorish, a. [See 1st , and cf. , .] Of or pertaining to Morocco or the Moors; in the style of the Moors.
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Coloq. Moorish architecture , the style developed by the Moors in the later Middle Ages, esp. in Spain, in which the arch had the form of a horseshoe, and the ornamentation admitted no representation of animal life. It has many points of resemblance to the Arabian and Persian styles, but should be distinguished from them. See Illust. under .
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Moorland (?), n. [AS. mōrland.] Land consisting of a moor or moors.
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Moorpan (?), n. [Cf. Hard pan, under .] A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
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Moorstone (?), n. A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
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Mooruk (?), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is bilobed; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.
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Moory (?), a. Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer.
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As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.
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Moory, n. A kind of blue cloth made in India. Balfour (Cyc of India).
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moose (m�s), n. [A native name; Knisteneaux mouswah; Algonquin monse. Mackenzie.] 1. (Zoöl.) A large cervine mammal (Alces alces syn. Alces machlis, syn Alces Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See .
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2. A member of the Progressive Party; a Bull Moose. [Obsolescent. Cant, from the early 1900's.]
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2. [capitalized] A member of the fraternal organization named Loyal Order of Moose.
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Coloq. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See . -- Coloq. Moose deer . Same as . -- Coloq. Moose yard (Zoöl.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection.
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Moosewood (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum). (b) Leatherwood.
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moot (mōt), v. See 1st . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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moot (m�t), n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
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Moot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. mōtan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mōt, gemōt, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mōt, MHG. muoz. Cf. to come together.] 1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
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A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. Sir W. Hamilton.
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2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
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First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. Sir T. Elyot.
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3. To render inconsequential, as having no effect on the practical outcome; to render academic; as, the ruling that the law was invalid mooted the question of whether he actually violated it.
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Moot (?), v. i. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
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There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. B. Jonson.
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Moot, n. [AS. mōt, gemōt, a meeting; -- usually in comp.] [Written also mote.] 1. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot. J. R. Green.
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2. [From , v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
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The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots. Sir T. Elyot.
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Coloq. Moot case , a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question. Dryden. -- Coloq. Moot court , a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases. -- Coloq. Moot point , a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question. -- Coloq. to make moot v. t. to render moot{2}; to moot{3}.
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Moot, a. 1. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
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2. Of purely theoretical or academic interest; having no practical consequence; as, the team won in spite of the bad call, and whether the ruling was correct is a moot question.
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Mootable (?), a. Capable of being mooted.
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Mooter (?), n. A disputer of a mooted case.
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{ Moot-hall (?), Moot-house (?), } n. [AS. mōth�s.] A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] “The moot-hall of Herod.” Wyclif.
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Moot-hill (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.
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Mootman (?), n.; pl. Mootmen (�). (O. Eng. Law) One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
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Mop (?), n. [See .] A made-up face; a grimace. “What mops and mowes it makes!” Beau. & Fl.
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Mop, v. i. To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.
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Mop, n. [CF. W. mop, mopa, Ir. moipal, Gael. moibeal, moibean; or OF. mappe a napkin (see , ).] 1. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
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2. A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Coloq. Mop head . (a) The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened. (b) A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. [U.S.]
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Mop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mopping.] To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
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Mopboard (?), n. (Carp.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See .
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Mope (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Moped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Moping.] [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.] To be dull and spiritless; to spend time doing little; as, to mope around the house. “Moping melancholy.” Milton.
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A sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope. Shak.
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Mope, v. t. To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]
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Mope, n. A dull, spiritless person. Burton.
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Mope-eyed (?), a. Shortsighted; purblind.
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Mopeful (?), a. Mopish. [R.]
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mop-headed adj. having a bushy top without a leader; -- of trees; as, mop-headed cabbage palms.
Syn. -- mopheaded.
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Mopish (?), a. Dull; spiritless; dejected. -- Mopishly, adv. -- Mopishness, n.
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Moplah (?), n. [Malayalam māpplia.] One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
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Moppet (?), n. [From 3d .] 1. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
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2. (Zoöl.) A long-haired pet dog.
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{ Mopsey, Mopsy } (?), n. 1. A moppet.
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2. A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.
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Mopsical (?), a. Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
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Mopstick (?), n. The long handle of a mop.
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mopus (mōpŭs), n. A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.
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Moquette (?), n. [F.] A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
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Mora (?), n. [It.] A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
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Mora (?), n. (Bot.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
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Mora, n. [L.] (Rom. & Civil Law) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
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Moraine (?), n. [F. Cf. Prov. G. mur stones broken off, It. mora a heap of stones, hillock, G. mürbe soft, broken up, OHG. muruwi, AS. mearu tender, Gr. � to cause to wither, Skr. mlā to relax.] (Geol.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell.
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☞ If the moraine is at the extremity of the glacier it is a terminal moraine; if at the side, a lateral moraine; if parallel to the side on the central portion of the glacier, a medial moraine. See Illust. of . In the last case it is formed by the union of the lateral moraines of the branches of the glacier. A ground moraine is one beneath the mass of ice.
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Morainic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a moranie.
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Moral (?), a. [F., fr. It. moralis, fr. mos, moris, manner, custom, habit, way of life, conduct.] 1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
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Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker.
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Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden.
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She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.
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2. Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
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The wiser and more moral part of mankind. Sir M. Hale.
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3. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
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A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense. J. Edwards.
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4. Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
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5. Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
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6. Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
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Coloq. Moral agent , a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong. -- Coloq. Moral certainty , a very high degree or probability, although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in the affairs of life; as, there is a moral certainty of his guilt. -- Coloq. Moral insanity , insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible. -- Coloq. Moral philosophy , the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded. -- Coloq. Moral play , an allegorical play; a morality. [Obs.] -- Coloq. Moral sense , the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law. -- Coloq. Moral theology , theology applied to morals; practical theology; casuistry.
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Moral (?), n. 1. The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
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Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them. South.
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2. The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
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Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
And make a moral of the devil himself. Shak.
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To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson.
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We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters. Macaulay.
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3. A morality play. See , 5.
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Moral, v. i. To moralize. [Obs.] Shak.
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Morale (?), n. [F. See , a.] The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
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Moraler (?), n. A moralizer. [Obs.] Shak.
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Moralism (?), n. A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.
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moralise v. moralize. [Chiefly Brit.]
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Moralist, n. [Cf. F. moraliste.] 1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison.
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2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
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The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Hammond.
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moralistic adj. 1. narrowly and conventionally moral; -- of people.
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2. disposed to moralize{2}; -- of people.
Syn. -- moralizing.
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Morality (?), n.; pl. Moralities (#). [L. moralitas: cf. F. moralité.] 1. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
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The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it. South.
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2. The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
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Of moralitee he was the flower. Chaucer.
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I am bold to think that morality is capable of demonstration. Locke.
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3. The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.
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The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. Bacon.
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The system of morality to be gathered out of . . . ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.
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4. The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
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5. A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII. Strutt.
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6. Intent; meaning; moral. [Obs.]
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Taketh the morality thereof, good men. Chaucer.
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Moralization (?), n. [Cf. F. moralisation.] 1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.
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2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.
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