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.

The wiser and more moral part of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense. J. Edwards.

Moral agent, a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong. -- Moral certainty, a very high degree or probability, although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in the affairs of life; as, there is a moral certainty of his guilt. -- Moral insanity, insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible. -- Moral philosophy, the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded. -- Moral play, an allegorical play; a morality. [Obs.] -- Moral sense, the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law. -- Moral theology, theology applied to morals; practical theology; casuistry.

Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them. South.

Thus may we gather honey from the weed,
And make a moral of the devil himself. Shak.

To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson.

We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters. Macaulay.