MORALIZER
MOR'ALIZER, noun One who moralizes.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MORALIZING
MOR'ALIZING, participle present tense Applying to a moral purpose, or explaining in a moral sense.1. Making moral reflections in words or writing.MOR'ALIZING, noun The applicati...
MORALLY
MOR'ALLY, adverb In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.By good, morally so called, bonum honestum ought chiefly to be understood.1. Virtuously; honestl...
MORALS
MOR'ALS, nounplural The practice of the duties of life; as a man of correct morals1. Conduct; behavior; course of life, in regard to good and evil.Some, as corrupt in their mora...
MORANCY
COMMORANCE, MORANCY, noun A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; abode; habitation.Commorancy consists in usually lying there.
MORASS
MORASS', noun A marsh; a fen; a tract of low moist ground.
MORASSY
MORASS'Y, adjective Marshy; fenny.
MORAVIAN
MORA'VIAN, adjective Pertaining to Moravia.MORA'VIAN, noun One of a religious sect, called the United Brethren.
MORBID
MOR'BID, adjective [Latin morbidus, form morbus, a disease, from the root of morior, to die.] Diseased; sickly; not sound and healthful; as morbid humors; a morbid constitution;...
MORBIDNESS
MOR'BIDNESS, noun A state of being diseased, sickly or unsound.
MORBIFIC
MORBIF'ICMORBIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin morbus, disease, and facio, to make.Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as morbific matter.
MORBIFICAL
MORBIF'ICAL, a. [L. morbus, disease, and facio, to make.Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as morbific matter.
MORBILLOUS
MORBIL'LOUS, adjective [Latin morbilli, measles, a medical term from morbus.]Pertaining to the measles; measly; partaking of the nature of measles, or resembling the eruptions o...
MORBOSE
MORBO'SE, adjective [Latin morbosus.] Proceeding from disease; unsound; unhealthy; as a morbose tumor or excrescence in plants.
MORBOSITY
MORBOS'ITY, noun A diseased state.
MORDACIOUS
MORDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin mordax, infra.] Biting; given to biting.
MORDACIOUSLY
MORDA'CIOUSLY, adverb In a biting manner; sarcastically.
MORDACITY
MORDAC'ITY, noun [Latin mordacitas, from mordeo, to bite.]The quality of biting.
MORDANT
MOR'DANT, noun A substance which has a chimical affinity for coloring matter and serves to fix colors; such as alum.
MORDICANCY
MOR'DICANCY, noun A biting quality; corrosiveness.
MORDICANT
MOR'DICANT, adjective [Latin mordeo, to bite.] Biting; acrid; as the mordicant quality of a body.
MORDICATION
MORDICA'TION, noun [from Latin mordeo, to bite.] The act of biting or corroding; corrosion.Another cause is the mordication of the orifices, especially of the mesentery veins.
MORE
MORE, adjective [Latin magis; mare for mager; but this is conjecture.]1. Greater in quality, degree or amount; in a general sense; as more land; more water; more courage; more v...
MOREEN
MOREE'N, noun A stuff used for curtains, etc.
MOREL
MOREL', noun Garden nightshade, a plant of the genus Solanum.1. A kind of cherry.
MORELAND
MORELAND. [See Moorland.]
MORENESS
MO'RENESS, noun Greatness.