单词 | moralized |
释义 | moralizedadj. 1. Morally or symbolically applied or interpreted; made instructive in relation to morals. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > [adjective] > edifying > moralizing or moralized moralized1498 moralizing1723 moralizable1916 1498 Interpr. Names Goddis & Goddesses (de Worde) sig. Ciiiv Thus endeth this lytyll moralized treatyse. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body sig. D3 These moralized Eagles. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind xii. 342 A story of which the European fable..might be a mere moralized remnant. 1976 Amer. Notes & Queries 15 19/2 Although he might be like the ‘literal’ Narcissus who worships without getting, he is not like the ‘true’, moralized Narcissus who desires the worthless things of the world. 1993 J. Hines Fabliau in Eng. 64 The story of the weeping bitch was a widely known one, albeit in moralized versions. 2. Of a person, a personal attribute, etc.: given a moral sense or quality; made moral. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [adjective] > making moral or improving > made moral moralized1646 1646 J. Lilburne Innocency & Truth 6 He cometh short of a civill moralized Heathen. 1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος i. 3 Thousands of moralliz'd heathens..would blush. 1656 T. Watson One Thing Necessary 70 A moraliz'd man is but a tame divell. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 48 There are two principal Actors among the Indians..who are said to be..a strange kind of moralized Salvages. 1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 54 [His] finely moralized mind, elevated with the purest religious sentiments, is exactly fitted for such a subject. 1892 C. G. Montefiore Hibbert Lect. i. 38 Resembling rather the insensate violence of angered nature, than the reasonable indignation of a moralized personality. 1991 J. Marriott Culture of Labourism 11 The 1840s, when a discourse of reform and moral improvement framed economic and Benthamite languages with a moralised and rationalised social commitment. 3. Having morals, esp. of a specified kind or quality. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [adjective] > behaved or conducted in a specific manner > in respect of right and wrong moralled1614 moralized1650 1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 145 Do you think that they are..so singularly moralized, that Socrates-like, if an Asse kick they will not kick again? 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 15 Why God would call the Magi..to Christ? Not because they were Wisemen, or men well morrallized. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets xii. 417 To suppose that the Greeks were not a highly moralized race is perhaps the strangest misconception to which religious prejudice has ever given rise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1498 |
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