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Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.

od; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon.

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.

One who practices or upholds monogamy. Goldsmith.

Upholding, or practicing, monogamy.

A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court. First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. Sir T. Elyot.

r to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules. Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them…

One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives. The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Ham…

The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.

The doctrine, system, and practices of the Mormons.

To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline. This makes him ... give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast, and mortify. Law.

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

in a healthful and vigorous physical state. T. Hughes. -- Muscular CHristianity. (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good m…

A particular power and practice of poetry. Shak.

The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.

t, so as to put a stop to its currency; -- an expression probably derived from the former practice of shopkeepers, who were accustomed to nail bad or counterfeit pieces of money to the counter.