Virtue

ver'choo, n. Active quality or power; strength; force; efficacy; natural excellence; worth; moral excellence; morality; uprightne a particular moral excellence; female chastity virginity; purity; one of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. [ME. and F. vertu, L. virtus, manly excellence, vir, a man: see Virile.]— Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal.—//* orbyv. of. Through the force of; by authority of. — Viri/uous, -choo-us, a. Po e ing or exhibiting virtues showing moral virtue or excellence excellent good blamele morally right; righteous chaste pure, — applied to women. [F. vertueux, LL. virtuosus.] — Virtuously, adv. — Virt'uousne , n.—Virt'ual, a. Being in e ence or effect, not in fact. [F. virtueh] — Virtually, adv. — In a virtual manner in efficacy or effect only. Virtu, -too', n. A love of the tine arts a taste for curiosities objects of art or antiquity, taken collectively. [It. virtu, vertu, for virtute, virtue, excellence, esp. in a love for the fine arts.] — Virtuo'so, -too-o/ so, n. B. pi. -o's os, -soz. It. pi. -o'si, -o'se. One devoted' to virtu, or skilled in the fine arts, antiquities, curiosities, etc. virtuous, learned, also one skilled in the fine arts.]