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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency. The demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had dem…

Pertaining to the femur or thigh; as, the femoral artery. "Femoral habiliments." Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

The state or quality of being humoral.

One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.

Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.

Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple.

In an immoral manner; wickedly.

A woman in love; a mistress. "The fair inamorata." Sherburne.

Enamored. Chapman. -- In*am"o*rate*ly, adv. [R.]

A male lover.

Pertaining to, or like, marble.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]

A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.

Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.

The quality or state of being memorable.

*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Mem"o*ra*bly, adv. Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds. Sir J. Davies.