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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.

A division of Hydroidea, including those genera that secrete a stony coral, as Millepora and Stylaster. Two forms of zooids in life project from small pores in the coral and resemble those of other hydroids. See Millepora.

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

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.

Immaterial; incorporeal; spiritual. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Incorporeality. [Obs.] Bailey.

Incorporeally. [Obs.]

Below the temple; below the temporal bone.

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.

Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.

Of or pertaining to the lores.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.

The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.

A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.

g, so far as they are properly subject to rules. Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.