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th or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor. [Obs.] Shak. Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn. Chapman.

Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms. Fairfax.

Promotive of abstemiousness. [R.] Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. Dryden.

r figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

sion is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. Milton.

" Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

et as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

ement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. Addison.

ree did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

Height of degree; highest point or degree. He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak.

two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke.

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

tence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.

Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.

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