-mor 
-mor. -more 2 . . [Gael, and Ir. mor, great. J A 
( Vltie adjective, meaning 'great,' used as a com- 
ponent in personal and place names: as, Can- 
iiini'f, 'great, head,' Strut li wor. 'great strath.' 
mora 1 (mo'i-ii), ii.; pi. mora' (-re). [L., delay; 
hence ult. mOTOtion, ili-mur.~\ 1. Inc. /</.., 
the unit of time, equivalent to the ordinary or 
normal short ; the semeion or primary time. 
Seetoic. 2. Inn' rillinr, any unjustifiable delay 
in the fulfilment of an obligation, for which the 
party delaying is responsible. It may be either on 
the aide of the debtor who refuses to fulfil or on that of the 
creditor who > . i ust> to accept. In the first cant it gives 
rise to an action for damages, In the latter case the debtor 
Is discharged of liability for the loss of the tiling. 
mora- (mo'ril), . [It., appar. a particular use 
of mora, delay, < L. mora, delay: see worn 1 .] 
An old game still common in Italy, in which 
one of the players, after raising the right hand, 
suddenly lowers it. with one or more of the 
fingers extended, the other players trying to 
guess the number so extended. 
mora 3 (mo'ra), . [Guiana name.] A majestic 
leguminous tree, Dimorphandra (Mora) excelsa, 
abounding in Guiana and Trinidad. IU hard 
tough wood U much esteemed for ship-building, and Is 
also fitted for cabinet-work by its susceptibility of polish, 
its chestnut-brown color, and Its sometimes figured grain. 
Moradabad work. See work. 
Morsea (mo-re'a), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1767), 
named after Jotiannes Morceus, father-in-law of 
Linuajus.] A genus of plants of the order In- 
dex, type of the tribe Morceece. it is distinguished 
by the petaloid winged branches of the style, and by the 
perianth being completely divided to its base. About 40 
species are known, natives of tropical and southern Africa, 
Australia, and the Mascarene Islands. They are bulbous 
3S55 
We are bound to note the circumstance that the moral, 
which at c.nc time coincides witb the < 'lliii -ml, " t other 
times is co-extensive with the "voluntary." 
A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 620. 
Even the feelings which we call moral, on account of 
their connection with will and desire, often hare an in- 
dellnite part of them so combined with feelings located 
in the iHHlily organism, or so dependent on IU functions 
for their quantity and quality, that a strict separation be- 
comes impossible. 
O. T. Ladd, Physiol. I'sychology, p. 607. 
Kant says that the end of Self-love, our own happiness, 
cannot be an end for the Moral Reason ; that the force of 
the reasonable Will, In which Virtue consist*, Is always ex- 
hibited In resistance to natural egoistic Impulse*. 
//. Sidguick, Methods of Ethics, p. 347. 
When In his self consciousness he (man) realized that 
through transgression he had become guilty, doubtless 
all things about him seemed different, because In hi* own 
soul there had been a mural revolution. 
BiUiutheea Sacra, XLV. 645. 
War Is a moral teacher : opposition to external force Is 
an aid to the highest civic virtues. 
Woolxy, Introd. to International Law, | . 
2. In accord with, or controlled by, the rules 
of right conduct: opposed to immoral. In this 
sense moral is often used specifically of conduct 
in the sexual relation. 
The wiser and more mora U part of mankind were forced 
to set up laws and punishments, to keep thegenerallltyof 
mankind in some tolerable order. 
Sir M. Hale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 355. 
Take a moral act. What is it that constitutes It moral f 
Its tendency, at least according to Shaftesbury's system, Is 
to promote the general welfare or the good of mankind. 
Fowler, Shaftesbury and Hutcheson, p. 94. 
"What do you mean by a thoroughly moral man?" said 
I. "Oh, I suppose every one means the same by that," 
said Melissa, with a slight air of rebuke. "Sir Oavlal is 
an excellent family man quite blameless there; and so 
" When a man 
plants or grow from a short rootstock, with long narrow 
upright leaves, and several or many handsome fragrant 
flowers, blue, purple, yellow, or variously colored. Some 
species produce edible bulbs, and many from the Cape of 
Good Hope are cultivated for ornament, among them M. 
vapilionacea, the butterfly-iris. 
Moraeeae (mo-ro'e-e). n. pi. [NL. (Bentham 
and Hooker,' 1883), < Morasa + -c'.] A tribe good for the use of high ethical and theological disputation. 
- George EKot, Theophrastus Such, xvi. 
charitable round his place at Tiptop.' 
whose business hours, the solid part of every day, are 
spent in an unscrupulous course of public or private ac- 
tion which has every calculable chance of causing wide- 
spread Injury and misery, can be called moral because he 
comes home to dine with his wife and children and cher- 
ishes the happiness of his own hearth, the augury Is not 
;inu xiuvflvcr, ioo*y, x j**vf u/i* i -/vt.j w**w^ 
of monocotyledouous plants of the order Iridete, 
typified by the genus Morcea, and characterized 
by two or more flowers from one spathe, and by 
having branches of the style opposite the an- 
thers and often closely applied to them, it con- 
tains about 188 species, in 12 genera ; the best-known are 
Tiffridia, Irii, and the South African Morcea and Marica. 
morainal (mo-ra'nal), a. Same as morainic. 
moraine (mo-ran')!' n. and a. [< F. moraine; 
cf. It. mora', a heap of stones, < G. dial. (Bav.) 
mur, sand and broken stones, debris.] I. n. 
The accumulations of rock and detrital ma- 
terial along the edges of a glacier. In mountains 
where the glaciers are bordered by cliffs, the materials 
of which these are composed, being loosened by frost rain, 
and gravity, fall upon the ice beneath and are gradually 
conveyed downward, receiving additions as they move. 
A simple glacier has ordinarily two such lateral moraines, 
and when two glaciers meet and unite the two adjacent 
lateral moraines coalesce and form a medial moraine, and 
the same thing may be repeated again and again as vari- 
ous lateral glaciers unite themselves with the main ones. 
At the point where the glaciers end the detritus of the 
lull-nil and medial moraines is thrown upon the ground, 
and forms a more or less irregular pile of debris, called 
the terminal nwraine. 
II. a. Same as morainic. 
morainic (mo-ra'nik), a. [< moraine + -c.] 
1. Connected with or formed by a moraine: 
3. In a special sense, relating to the private 
and social duties of men as distinct from civil 
responsibilities: specifically so used in the 
Hegelian philosophy. 
" When St Crispin steals leather to make shoes for the 
poor, that act is moral (moralisch) and wrong (unrecht- 
fich)" a remark which explains Hegel's use of maralach 
better than much commentary. 
D. 0. JOtcJue, Mind, XIII. 438. 
4. Connected with the perception of right and 
wrong in conduct, especially when this is re- 
garded as an innate power of the mind; con- 
nected with or pertaining to the conscience. 
See moral sense, moral late, below. 
The development of a high moral sensibility can scarcely 
fail to bring suffering with it, as the mind recognises the 
meanness of actual attainment. 
./. Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 156. 
The problem of exercising the child's moral feelings is 
clearly connected with that of forming his moral character. 
J. Svily, Outlines of Psychol., p. 668. 
5. Capable of distinguishing between right and 
wrong; hence, bound to conform to what is 
right ; subject to a principle of duty ; account- 
able. 
A moral agent Is a being that Is capable of those actions 
7.3 ., - - v : o A morat agent lail nem^ uiui. isi:;iuu(c ui ki>o<; IK.I.IV 
as, -moratnte deposits ; a moramtc barrier. W. that have tt nlora i quality, and which can properly be de- 
U n .nMin *\ .. . .1 1 -! i I T 1 1 i 1 1 1 r a i . 1 1 ii-.i I M i ' Q.u . fin'- .....:.... t ... 1 .......I no avtl in a tiiiiriil aptmj' virTimHH or vi- 
Foruxing or constituting a moraine: as, 
rainic matter. 
moral (mor'al), n. and n. [Formerly also mo- 
ral/, morale ;"= D.moraal = G. Dan. Sw. moral, 
< F. moral = Sp. Pg. moral = It. morale, relat- 
ing to ethics ; as a noun, F. moral, moral con- 
dition, morale = Sp. Pg. moral = It. morale, 
morals ; < L. moralte, relating to manners or 
morals (first used by Cicero, to translate Gr. 
i/diK6;, moral: see etliie), < >. (mor-), manner, 
custom, pi. mores, manners, customs, morals. 
From L. mos are also ult. E. morose* and de- 
mure.'] I. a. 1. Of or pertaining to rules of 
right conduct; concerning the distinction of 
right from wrong; ethical. In this sense moral 
is opposed to non-moral, which denotes the ab- 
sence of ethical distinctions. 
Thles bodely dedis ar tokyne and shewynge of moratte 
vertues, wlth-oute which a soule is not able forto werke 
gostely. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 21. 
The former properly relates to natural, and the latter to 
moral philosophy, or civil society. 
Baton, Physical Fables, ill., Expl. 
In Matters of Religion, Moral Difficulties are more to be 
regarded than Intellectual. StUlingfteet, Sermons, III. vi. 
Another sort of relation, which is the conformity or dis- 
agreement men's voluntary actions have to a rule to which 
they are referred, and by which they are Judged of, ... 
may be called moral relation. 
Locte, Human Understanding, II. xxviii. 4. 
jiominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vi- 
cious, commendable or faulty. 
Edward*, Freedom of the Will, L 5. 
6. Depending upon considerations of what gen- 
erally occurs; resting upon grounds of proba- 
bility : opposed to demonstrative : as, moral evi- 
dence; moral arguments. See moral certainty, 
under certainty. 
A moral universality is when the predicate agrees to the 
greatest part of the particulars which are contained under 
the subject VatU, Logick. 
Physical and mathematical certainty may be styled in- 
fallible ; and moral certainty may be properly styled In- 
dubitable. Bp. WiUnm. 
Be that my task, replies a gloomy clerk, 
Sworn foe to mystery, yet divinely dark ; 
Whose pious hope aspires to see the day 
When moral evidence shall quite decay. 
And damns implicit faith, and holy lies, 
Prompt to impose, and fond to dogmatize. 
Pope, Dunclad, IT. 462. 
7. Of or pertaining to morals. 8). Having a 
moral; emblematical; allegorical; symbolical. 
By my troth, I have no moral meaning ; I meant plain 
holy-thistle. Sltak., Much Ado, lit 4. 8O. 
A thousand moral paintings I can show. 
That shall demonstrate these quick Mows of Fortune s 
More pregnantly than words. SAo*., T. of A., 1. 1. 90. 
9. Pertaining to the mind; mental: opposed 
to physical. 
moral 
Youth, thoo bear-st thy father's fce : 
Frank nature, rather curious than In haste, 
Halh well composed thee. Thy father's moral part* 
Mayst thou inherit Snot., Alls Well, L i M. 
10. Pertaining to the will, or count i\e element 
of the soul, as distinguished from the intellect 
or cognitive part. This refers to the usual pre- 
Kantian division of the soul. 11. Moralizing- 
[Kare.] 
France spread* hi* banners In oar nobeles* land, . . . 
Whiles thou, a moral tool, slfst still and criost, 
" Alack, why doe* he sot 5 Skat., Lear, IT. 2. 68. 
Moral cause, a person who Incites another to do or not to 
do something. 
Author here i* said to be him who, proposing reason*, 
persuades the principal cause either to or from action ; 
he Is also called the moral cause. 
Bwyendiciui, tr. by a Gentleman. 
Moral certainty. See certainty. Moral defeat. See 
innral ru-fory.- Moral dependence, evidence, force. 
See the nouns. Moral faculty. Same as moral MUM. 
Moral good either virtue or a virtuous action, or a 
pleasure or pain coming fnim such an action. Moral 
goodness. See ijnodnen. Moral Inability. See in- 
alnlitu, i. Moral insanity, sec intanity. - Moral law. 
(a) The law of conscience or duty ; either a single central 
principle of right conduct, or the system of rule* which 
should govern conduct (6) See Jowl. Moral neces- 
sity. See neeeaity Moral philosophy, (o) The phl- 
Icwuphy of mind ; psychology. (6) Ethics ; the science of 
morality. Moral sense, a phrase used by Shaftesbury, 
but brought Into greater prominence by Francis Hutche 
son In 1725, to denote a determination of the mind to re- 
ceive amiable or disagreeable Ideas of actions, antecedent 
to any opinion of advantage or loss to redound from them ; 
conscience. Moral theology, morals viewed as a system 
of spiritual laws proceeding from a divine law-giver ; theo- 
logical ethics. Moral victory, an actual defeat claimed 
as a virtual victory. This designation is often applied to 
a defeat which, as from the reduction of a former advene 
majority in a vote, or from other concomitant circum- 
stances, is regarded as having in it the elements of future 
victory, or at least as giving occasion for some measure of 
satisfaction. Moral virtue, a virtue taught by natural 
ethics, without revelation : opposed to theological nrttw, or 
faith, hope, charity. 
n. n. It- Morality; the doctrine or practice 
of the duties of life. [Rare.] 
Their Moral and (Economy 
Most perfectly they made agree. 
Prior, An Epitaph. 
2. pi. (a) Conduct; behavior; course of life in 
regard to right and wrong; specifically, sexual 
conduct: as, a man of good morals. 
Some, as corrupt In their moralt as vice could make 
them, have yet been solicitous to have their children so- 
berly, virtuously, and piously brought up. 
South, Sermons. (Latham.) 
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions ; 
It mends their moralt; never mind the pain. 
Byron, Don Juan, U. 1. 
(6) Moral philosophy; ethics. 3. The doctrine 
inculcated by a fable, apologue, or fiction; the 
practical lesson which anything is designed to 
teach ; hence, intent ; meaning. 
Wherof ensamples ben enowe 
Of hem, that thllke mereU drowe. 
G'nrer, Conf. Amant., vil. 
Beat. Yon have some moral In this Bonedictus. 
Maru Mural! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning. 
Shot., Much Ado, 111. 4. 7s. 
So, Lady Flora, take my lay, 
And, if yon find no moral there, 
lio, look In any glass, and say 
What moral Is in being fair. 
Tenuyton, The Day-Dream, Moral. 
4. An emblem, personification, or allegory; es- 
pecially, an allegorical drama. See morality, 6. 
The fox. the ape, and the humble-bee, 
Were still at odds, being but three. 
There's the moral. Now the 1'envoy. 
Shot., L. L. L., lit 1. 88. 
1 Pith. Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never 
leave gaping till they've swallowed the whole parish 
church, steeple, bells, and alL 
Per. A pretty moral. Shot., Pericles, U. 1. 39. 
In the middle of his play (be It pastoral or comedy, mor. 
all or tragedie). Better, Cull'* Hornebook. 
Lastly, Moralt [or moralities) teach and Illustrate the 
same religious truths, not by direct representation of Scrip- 
tural or legendary event* and personages, but by allegori- 
cal means, abstract figures of virtues or qualities being per- 
sonified in the characters appearing In these plays. 
A. W. H'anf, Eng. Dram. Lit, L 23. 
5. A certainty. [Slang.] 6. An exact like- 
ness; a counterpart. [Obsolete or colloq.] 
He has got the trick of the eye and the tip of the nose 
of my uncle; . . . and as for the long chin, it 1* the very 
moral of the governor's. 
Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, p. 386. 
She 's the very pictur yes, the very moral of Dick Tnr- 
pln's Bess. 
D. Jerrold, St Giles and St James, p. 110. (Hoppe.) 
= 8yn, S. See morality. 3. See inference. 
moralt (mor'al), r. '. [< mora/ 1 , a.] To mor- 
alize. 
When I did hear 
The motley fool thus moral on the time, 
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. 
Shot., As you Like it, II. 7. 28. 
