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The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey.

to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.

To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve. "My fortune . . . amends." Sir P. Sidney.

Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.

fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain. Darwin.

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.

Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

st plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew…

which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.

which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.

mental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.

Thoughts and expressions . . . which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality. Dryden.

Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense. Arm yourselves . . . with the same mind. 1 Pet. iv. 1. To arm a magnet, to fit it with an armature.

Any seizure by power, physical or moral. The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., . . . were sad arrests to his troubled spirit. Jer. Taylor.