Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOR'AL-IZ-ED, pp.

1. Applied to a moral purpose, or explained in a moral sense.
2. Rendered moral or less corrupt. Ch. Relig. Appeal.

MOR'AL-IZER, n.

One who moralizes.

MORAL-IZ-ING, n.

The application of facts to a moral purpose, or the making of moral reflections. His moralizings are always pleasant, and he does not spare where he thinks it useful to moralize. Ch. Obs.

MOR'AL-IZ-ING, ppr.

1. Applying to a moral purpose, or explaining in a moral sense.
2. Making moral reflections in words or writing.

MOR'AL-LY, adv.

1. In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality. By good, morally so called, bonum honestum ought chiefly to be understood. South.
2. Virtuously; honestly; according to moral rules in external deportment. He resolves to live morally.
3. According to the rules of the divine law. An action is not in strictness morally good, which does not proceed from good motives, or a principle of love and obedience to the divine law and to the lawgiver. Charity bestowed to gratify pride, or justice done by compulsion, can not be morally good in the sight of God.
4. According to the evidence of human reason or of probabilities, founded on facts or experience; according to the usual course of things and human judgment. It is morally impossible for a hypocrite to keep himself long on his guard. L'Estrange. From the nature of things, I am morally certain that a mind free from passion and prejudice is more fit to pass a true judgment than one biased by affection and interest. Wikins.

MOR'ALS, n. [plur.]

1. The practice of the duties of life; as, a man of correct morals.
2. Conduct; behavior; course of life, in regard to good and evil. Some, as corrupt in their morals as vice could make them, have been solicitous to have their children virtuously and piously educated. South. What can laws do without morals? Franklin.

MO-RASS', n. [D. moeras, from moer, a marsh; Sw. moras; G. morast; Sax. mersc; Fr. morais; from mare or moor, a tract of level ground.]

A marsh; a fen; a tract of low moist ground. Watts. Thomson.

MO-RASS'Y, a.

Marshy; fenny. Pennant.

MO-RA'VI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Moravia.

MO-RA'VI-AN, n.

One of a religions sect; called the United Brethren.

MOR'BID, a. [L. morbidus, from morbus, a disease, from the root of morior, to die; W. marw, to die, from mar, laid flat. The sense of the verb then is to fall, fail or sink; Ir. marbh, W. marw, dead. In Ch. מרע is to be sick. Class Mr, No. 12.]

Diseased; sickly; not sound and healthful; as, morbid humor; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant; a morbid sensibility.

MOR'BID-NESS, n.

A state of being diseased, sickly or unsound.

MOR-BIF'IC, or MOR-BIF'IC-AL, a. [Fr. morbifique; L. morbus, disease, and facio, to make.]

Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, morbific matter.

MOR-BIL'LOUS, a. [L. morbilli, measles, a medical term from morbus.]

Pertaining to the measles; measly; partaking of the nature of measles, or resembling the eruptions of that disease.

MOR-BOSE, a. [L. morbosus.]

Proceeding from disease; unsound; unhealthy; as, a morbose tumor or excrescence in plants. Ray.

MOR-BOS'I-TY, n.

A diseased state. Brown.

MOR'CEAU, n. [morso; Fr.]

A bit; a morsel.

MOR-DA'CIOUS, a. [L. mordax, infra.]

Biting; given to biting. Evelyn.

MOR-DA'CIOUS-LY, adv.

In a biting manner; sarcastically. Waterhouse.

MOR-DAC'I-TY, n. [L. mordacitas, from mordeo, to bite.]

The quality of biting.

MOR'DANT, n. [Fr. biting.]

A substance which has a chimical affinity for coloring matter and serves to fix colors; such as alum. Fourcroy.

MOR'DANT-LY, adv.

In the manner of a mordant.

MOR'DI-CAN-CY, n.

A biting quality; corrosiveness. Evelyn.

MOR'DI-CANT, a. [Fr. from L. mordeo, to bite.]

Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body. Boyle.

MOR-DI-CA'TION, n. [from L. mordeo, to bite.]

The act of biting or corroding; corrosion. Another cause is the mordication of the orifices, especially of the mesentery veins. Bacon.