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i. [MORAL, a.] To moralize. "I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time." Shakesp.: As You Like It , ii. 7. mo-rale, s. [French moral .] State of the mind as regards courage, zeal, confidence, and such like: especially of a body of men engaged in some dangerous enterprise or pursuit, as soldiers in war. *mor-al-er, s . [English moral; -er.] One who moralizes. "Come, you are too severe a moraler ."- Shakesp .: Othello , ii. 3. Ital. moral ità .] 1. The doctrine of the moral duties of life or of men in their social character; morals, ethics. "Moral philosophy, morality , ethics, casuistry, natural law, mean all the same thing, namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it."-Paley: Moral Philosophy , bk. i., ch. i. 2. The practice of moral duties; course of life as regards moral duties; observance of right and wrong. "That very low standard of morality which was gener ally attained by politicians of his age and nation."- Ма caulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xiii. 3. The quality or character of an action, principle, ., as estimated by a standard of right and wrong; the conformity of an action, principle, ., to the true moral standard or law. "The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle."- South : Sermons. 4. A kind of dramatic representation, which succeeded the mysteries or miracle plays, and in which the characters were abstractions or allegorical representations of virtues, vices, mental faculties, ., such as Charity, Sin, Death, Hope, Faith, or the like. They formed the transition between the mysteries and the masques. [MYSTERY (1), 4.] mor-al-i-zā-tion, s. [Eng. moraliz ( e ); -ation .] 1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections. "A book of moralizations upon Ovid's Metamorphoses." -Baker: Henry V. (an. 1422). *2. Explanation in a moral sense; a moral. "It is more commendable, and also commodious, if the players haue red the moralization of the che e."-Sir T. Elyot: The Govern our, bk. i., ch. xxvi. mor-al-ize, v. t. & i. [Fr. moraliser, from moral =moral (q.v.); Sp. moral izar.] A. Transitive : 1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain or interpret in a moral sense; to deduce a moral from. "I pray thee, moralize them."-Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iv. 4. 2. To furnish with morals or examples; to provide with moral le ons. "Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song." Spenser: F. Q., L. i. (Introd.) 3. To render moral; to correct or improve the morals of. 4. To exemplify or illustrate the moral of. "That which is said of the elephant, that being guiltie of his deform i tie, he cannot abide to looke on his owne face in the water (but seekes for troubled and muddy channels), we see well moralized in men of evill con science."-Bp. Hall: Med, and Vowes, ch. ii., § 4. B. In trans.: To write or speak upon moral subjects; to make moral reflections; to philosophize. "Here quaff'd, encircled with the joyous strain, Oft moralizing sage." Thomson: Castle of Indolence , i. 68. mor-al-i-zer, s. [Eng. moraliz(e); -er.] One who moralizes; a moralist. mor-al-lý, adv. [Eng. moral; -ly.] 1. In a moral point of view; according to mo rality. "Far superior morally and intellectually to Hume."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvii. 2. In character, in nature, in disposition. "The individual Celt was morally and physically well qualified for war."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. 3. According to the rules of morality; virtuously, uprightly; as, to live morally . 4. To all intents and purposes; virtually, practically; as, This is morally certain. mor-alş, s. [MORAL, 8., B. 2.] mō-ră , s . [Dut.moer as=a marsh, a fen, from moer=mire, dirt, moor; Sw.maras ; Ger. morast ; Fr. marais .] A bog, a fen, a marsh; a tract of wot land insufficiently drained; a swamp. [MOOR (1), subst .] "The graves of you sands of English soldiers had been dug in the pestilential mora of Dundalk."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xxiii.