ethical (ethikal)

[ authors in verse. In the absence of a social environment ethical feelings have no existence. Mind, X. 7. Ethical dative, the dative of a first or second personal pronoun, implying a degree of interest in the person speaking or the person addre ed, used colloquially to give a lively or familiar tone to the sentence: thus, τί σοι μαθήσομαι, what shall I learn for you? quid mihi Celsus agit, how is my Celsus? It [sack] ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish, dull, and crudy vapours which environ it;. then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. Ethical truth, the agreement of what is said with what is really believed; veracity: opposed to lying . ethically (eth'i-kal-i), adv. According to the doctrines of morality. The law-giver has the same need to be ethically in⚫structed as the individual man. Gladstone, Church and State, ii. § 69. The principle of non-resistance is not ethically true, but only that of non-aggre ion. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 300. ethicist (eth'i-sist), n. [ acetylene. ethionic (e-thi-on'ik), a. [