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Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.

To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak.

In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality. By good, good morally so called, "bonum honestum" ought chiefly to be understood. South.

Mosaic (in either sense). "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.

Power of, or capacity for, motion. Devoid of sense and motion. Milton.

porations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muck"rake`, in the above sense, and the noun muck"rak`er, to designate one so engaged, were speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original allusion was to a character in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" so intent on raking up muck that he could not…

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

my wheat has been made to germinate in modern times. -- To beat to a mummy, to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.

An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.

y in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offe…

dled; stupid. The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.

ho, or that which, mythologizes. Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. Lowell.

Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

Having a nice sense of smell. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.

strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. With strong natural sense, and rare force of will. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

The refusal or withholding of assents; veto. If a kind without his kingdom be, in a civil sense, nothing, then ... his negative is as good as nothing. Milton.

The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense. Mrs. Browning.

One who introduces new word or new senses of old words into a language.