etherization

[Fr. éthérisation.] 1. Chem.: The proce of manufacturing ether. 2. Medicine: (1) The art or act of administering ether to a patient. tom, moral nature, habit.] Moral; treating of or relating to manners or morals; containing precepts or discourses on morality. " Ethical means practical; it relates to practice or conduct pa ing into habit or disposition." -Matthew Arnold: Literature and Dogma , p. 20. ěth-ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. ethical; -ly.] In an ethical manner; according to the doctrines of mo rality. ěth-I-çist, s. [Eng. ethic; -ist.] A writer on ethics; one learned in ethics. eth'-Ics, *eth-icks, s . [ETHIC, a.] The science of morals; moral philosophy when the word moral is used in opposition to mental, instead of including it. The first to employ the Greek word ethikë , which originally meant no more than that which arises from use or custom [ETHIC, etym.], to designate the all-important science of moral duty as based, not on changing custom, but on unchanging laws, was Aristotle, who wrote three treatises on the subject. His disciple Theophrastus followed in the same direction. The word ethics may be used in a more or le comprehensive sense. In a more comprehensive sense it takes in man's moral duty, not merely to those individuals with whom he may be brought in contact, but also to the body politic of which he constitutes a part, nay even to the inferior animals. In a more limited sense it excludes politics, and Aristotle had a distinct treatise on this latter subject. One old and much accepted division of the science was into three parts: (1) the duty of a good man, (2) that of a good father, and (3) that of a good citizen and a good magistrate. Various hypotheses or theories have been propounded regarding the basis of morals. One of these, extensively embraced, refers this to the Divine will expre ed in revelation; another founds it on utility to society, and as a rule considers that action or policy moral the natural tendency of which is to benefit society, and especially to produce the greatest attainable happine to the greatest number of persons. Mr. John Stuart Mill considers ethics not a science but an art. The imperative mood he regards as characterizing art and not science. Whatever speaks in rules or precepts, not in a ertions regarding matters of fact, he regards as art; and tried by this test ethics and morality are properly a portion of the art corresponding to the sciences of human nature and society; the remainder consisting of prudence and policy, and the art of education. e-thide, s. [Eng., ., eth (yl); suff. -ide ( Chem.) (q.v.).] Chem.: A name given to compounds formed by the union of an element with the monad radical ethyl C2H2-e.g., Zinc Ethide, Zn" (C2H5) 2, generally called Zire Ethyl.