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A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hudred years before.

Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.

Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton.

A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.

Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.

lesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil. Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terro…

To bind; to hold by a moral tie. [Obs.] I am combined by a sacred vow. Shak.

A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

Monitory. [Obs.] Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force. Wolsey . . . compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once. Hallam. And they compel one Simon . . . to bear his cross. Mark xv. 21.

e quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion. A moral rather than a complexional timidity. Burke.

or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak. With what complusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low. Milton.

The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god. S. W. Williams.