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moralized, ppl. a.|ˈmɒrəlaɪzd|
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1. a. Morally or symbolically applied or interpreted. b. Made instructive in morals.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2111 There is a booke..That ‘the Chesse moralisede’ cleped is. 1498Lydgate's Assembly of Gods, Interpr. Names Gods end, Thus endeth this lytell moralized treatyse. 1601Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body (1609) D iij, These moralized Eagles. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. xii. 342 A story of which the European fable..might be a mere moralized remnant.
2. Of a man or his attributes: Made moral.
1647W. Lyford Transl. Sinner (1648) 4 Moralized Christians, which have a forme of knowledge and of the truth in the Law. 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide i. 3 Thousands of moralliz'd heathens..would blush. 1656T. Watson One Thing Necessary 70 A moraliz'd man is but a tame divell. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative ii. 48 There are two principal Actors among the Indians..who are said to be..a strange kind of moralized Salvages. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 54 [His] finely moralized mind, elevated with the purest religious sentiments, is exactly fitted for such a subject. 1892Montefiore Hibbert Lect. i. 38 Resembling rather the insensate violence of angered nature, than the reasonable indignation of a moralized personality.
†3. Having morals of a specified kind. Obs.
1650H. More Observ. in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 145 Do you think that they are..so singularly moralized, that Socrates-like, if an Asse kick they will not kick again? 1652Gaule Magastrom. 15 Why God would call the Magi..to Christ? Not because they were wisemen or men well morrallized. |