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that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent’s 
power, having all things ready and requifite to the per¬ 
formance of an action, either to perform or not perform 
it. South. 
Morality, an old kind of drama; an allegorical play, 
in which the virtues and vices were perfonified.—The 
moralities indicate dawnings of the dramatic art; they 
contain fome rudiments of a plot, and even attempt to 
delineate chara filers, and to paint manners. War Ion's 
Hift. E. P. —Even after the people had been accuftomed 
to tragedies and comedies, moralities Hill kept their 
ground : one of them, entitled The New Cuftom, was 
printed fo late as 1573 : at length they aflumed the name 
of Mafques. Bp. Percy on the Orig. of the Eng. Stage .— 
This [Hick-Scorner,] and every morality I have feen, 
conclude with a folemn prayer. Ibid. 
MORALIZA'TION, /! Explanation in a moral fenfe. 
—It is the more commendable, and alfo commodious, if 
the players have read the moralization of the chefs, and 
when they play do think upon it. Sir T. Elyot. —Annexed 
to the fable is a moralifation of twice the length in the 
ofitave flanza. Almoll every narrative was antiently fup- 
pofed or made to be allegorical, and to contain a moral 
meaning. Warton. 
To MOR'ALIZE, v. a. To make moral. This primary 
meaning (fays Mr. Todd) is overpaffed by Dr. Johnfon. 
—Good and bad liars moralize not our afilions. Brown's 
Chr. Mor. —The goodnefs of afilions is never to be efti- 
mated merely by the degree of enthufiallick heat and 
ardor that is in them, but by fuch other laws and circum- 
ftances as moralize human afilions. Cudworth. —Thofe 
laws and circumllances which do moralize human afilions, 
and render them reafonable, and holy, and good. Scott. 
—To apply to moral purpofes; to explain in a moral 
fenfe.—This fable is moralized in a common proverb. 
L'Eflrange. 
Did he not moralize this fpefilacle ? 
O yes, into a thoufand fimilies. Shahejpearc. 
In Spenfer it feems to mean, to furnilh with manners or 
examples.—Fierce warres and faithful loves fnall moralize 
my fong. Fairy Queen. —In Prior, who imitates the fore¬ 
going line, it has a fenfe not eafily difeovered, if indeed 
it has any fenfe : 
High as their trumpets tune his lyre he lining, 
And with his prince’s arms he moraliz'd his fong. Prior. 
To MORAL'IZE, v. n. To fpeak or write on moral 
fubjefils.—When my friend was alone with me there, 
Ifaac, faid he, I know you come abroad only to moralize, 
and make oblervations. Tatler, No. 170. 
MOR'ALIZER, J'. One who moralizes. Sherwood. 
MOR'ALLY, adv. In the ethical fenfe. — By good, 
good morally fo called, bonurn honellum, ought chiefly 
to be underliood; and that the good of profit or pleafure, 
the bonuin utile or jucundum, hardly come into any 
account here. South. —According to the rules of virtue. 
—To take aw'ay rewards and punilhments, is only pleaf- 
ing to a man who refolves not to live morally. Dryden. — 
Popularly ; according to the common occurrences of life ; 
according to the common judgment made of things. 
—It is morally impoffible for an hypocrite to keep him- 
felf long upon his guard. L'Ejirange. —The concurring 
accounts of many fuch witneffes render it morally, or, 
as we might fpeak, abfolutely, impoffible that thefe things 
fliould be falfe. Atterhury. 
MOR'ALS,]/! [without a Angular.] The praflice of 
the duties of life; behaviour with refpefil to others.— 
Some, as corrupt in their morals as vice could make them, 
have yet been felicitous to have their children foberly, 
virtuouily, and piouily, brought up. South. 
Learn then what morals criticks ought to Ihew: 
’Tis not enough wit, art, and learning, join; 
In all you fpeak, let truth and candour Ihine. Pope. 
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MORAM'BO, a river of Africa, which runs into the 
Atlantic in lat. 11. 55. S. 
MORAN'D (Peter de), a French poet and dramatic 
writer, was born at Arles in 1701 ; and at a very early 
age he difplayed talents for poetry, which gained him 
confiderable reputation. Being difappointed in his mar¬ 
riage, he devoted himfelf to a life of diflipation, and to 
the literary profeflion. He wrote two tragedies, of which 
one was very fuccefsful, but the other failed. One of 
his moil popular pieces was a comedy, entitled “ L’Efprit 
de Divorce.” In 1749, was nominated literary cor- 
refpondent of the king of Pruflia, an office which he 
held only a few months. “ He w'as,” fays his biographer, 
“ equally unlucky in marriage, love, on the ftage, and in 
play; and to complete the lift of misfortunes he died in 
the very year (1757) at the ciofe of which all his debts 
would have been paid, and he would have been in pof- 
feflion of a decent income.” His works were publiflied 
collefitively in 3 vols. 121U0. Gen. Biog. 
MORAN'D (Sauveur Franpois), a Parifian furgeon of 
great eminence, was born in that metropolis in 1697, 
where his father alfo prafilifed the profeflion, and held 
the office of furgeon-major to the Invalids. Sauveur 
was inltrufiled in furgery by his father at the hofpital of 
the Invalids. He rofe to the mafterfliip of the company 
of St. Come, (which was afterwards erefited into the Royal 
Academy of Surgery,) and was appointed demonllrator 
of furgical operations to that body in 1725. I11 1728 he 
appeared as an author on the fubjefil of lithotomy, and 
publiflied his ‘‘Traite de la Tableau haut appareil, &c.” 
the high operation being then univerfally prafilifed by the 
furgeons of Paris. But, in the following year he was 
commiflioned by the Academy of Sciences to vifit Lon¬ 
don, with a view of witnefling the lateral operation, as 
performed by Chefelden with fo much fuccefs ; and, on 
his return to Paris, he introduced that mode of cutting 
for the flone, at the hofpital of La Charite, of which he 
was made furgeon. The fuccefs and confequent repu¬ 
tation which attended his new mode of prafilice, brought 
a crowd of pupils to his hofpital, and multiplied his pro- 
feffional honours. He became director and fecretary of 
his company, and held the latter office with great dif- 
tinfilion for many years after it was made a Royal Aca¬ 
demy. He was admitted a member of many foreign 
focieties, efpecially the Royal Society of London, and 
the academies of Stockholm, Peterfourgh, Florence, Bo¬ 
logna, and Rouen; and was nominated penfioner and 
profeffor of anatomy to the Royal Academy of Sciences 
at home. He was likewife appointed to feveral pro- 
feflional polls connefiled with the army ; and in 1751 
was honoured with knighthood of the order of St. Michael. 
He was every-where refpefited and admired as a-gentle¬ 
man, and as a man of cultivated underllanding and talle. 
He died in 1773, at the age of feventy-fix. 
Befides the treatife on lithotomy above mentioned, 
M. Morand left the following works., 2. Eloge Hillori- 
que de M. Marefchal, premier Chirurgien du Roi, 1737. 
Morand had married the daughter of this diltinguilhed 
furgeon. 3. Refutation d’un Palfage du Traite des Ope¬ 
rations de Chirurgie en Anglois, public par M. Sharp, 
Chirurgien de Londres, 1739- This, related to an afler- 
tion, that the lateral operation had been proferibed in the 
French hofpitals by royal edifl. 4. Difcoursdans lequel 
ou prouve qu’il eft neceflfaire au Chirurgien d’etre lettre, 
1743. 5. Memoire fur les Eaux Minerales de St. Amand. 
6. Receuil d’Experiences et d’Oblervations fur la Pierre, 
1743. 7. L’Art de faire des Rapports en Chirurgie, 1743. 
8. Catalogue des Pieces d’Anatomie, Inftrumens, &c. qui 
compofent l’Arfenal de Chirurgie forme a Paris, pour le 
Chancellerie de Medecine de Peterfbourg, 1759. 9- Opuf- 
cules de Chirurgie, 1768, 1772. He was author of feveral 
papers, publiflied in the Memoirs of the Academy of 
Sciences, as well as that of Surgery; and wrote a hiftory 
of the latter academy, for the l'econd and third volumes 
of their memoirs. Gen. Biog. 
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