Lexic.us

Definition of Moral

1. Adjective. Concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles. "A moral life"

2. Noun. The significance of a story or event. "The moral of the story is to love thy neighbor"

3. Adjective. Psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect. "Moral support"

Definition of Moral

1. a. 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.

2. n. The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.

3. v. i. To moralize.

Definition of Moral

1. Adjective. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour. ¹

2. Adjective. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment. ¹

3. Adjective. Capable of right and wrong action. ¹

4. Adjective. Probable but not proved. ¹

5. Adjective. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will. ¹

6. Noun. (context: of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson. ¹

7. Noun. Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Moral

1. pertaining to principles of right and wrong [adj] : MORALLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Moral

1. 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. "Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue." (Hooker) "Mankind is broken loose from moral bands." (Dryden) "She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness." (Hawthorne) 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. "The wiser and more moral part of mankind." (Sir M. Hale) 3. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty. "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) 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. 5. Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty. 6. Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales. Moral agent, a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong. 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. Moral insanity, insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible. 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. Moral play, an allegorical play; a morality. 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. Moral theology, theology applied to morals; practical theology; casuistry. Origin: F, fr. It. Moralis, fr. Mos, moris, manner, custom, habit, way of life, conduct. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moral

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moraic morainal moraine moraines morainic moral (current term) moral(a) moral-panic moral Mafia moral arithmetic

moral ataxia moral authority moral code moral excellence moral fiber moral fibre moral fibres moral force moral futurism

Literary usage of Moral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The habit of identifying moral characteristics with external conformity to ... Consequently while such an attitude has moral results, the results are ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This new kind of teaching questioned certain moral standards which had grown up and, taking a more advanced ground than that which made mere custom ..."

3. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"Source of the moral judgment. Received notion of some places he certainly adopts.1 Hutcheson, on the other hand, gives a plain definition of the object ..."

4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1884)
"moral training is a discipline of the will rather than of the intellect. Nevertheless all sound intellectual education is dependent on the moral training of ..."

5. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"I. THERE are, then, two kinds of virtue, the intellectual and the moral, ... And hence too it is clear that no one of the moral virtues is an innate law of ..."

6. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"THERE are, then, two kinds of virtue, the intellectual and the moral, of which the intellectual owes, for the most part, its birth and growth to a course of ..."

7. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"Connate in it is a "sense of right and wrong," to which Shaftesbury gives the name "the moral sense." And it is for his doctrine of the moral sense that he ..."

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