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ethicize, v.|ˈɛθɪsaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. intr. To discuss ethics; to speak or write on morals, moralize. rare.
1816G. Colman Br. Grins, Fire xix, They criticize, chop logic, ethicize, philosophize.
2. trans. To make ethical; to invest with an ethical element.
1885J. Martineau Types Ethical Th. (1889) II. 424 By naturalizing Ethics [the school of Herbert Spencer] reverses the idealizing process which rather ethicizes nature. 1889Boyd Carpenter Bampton Lect. vii. 276 The creed..becomes ethicized. |