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▪ I. morose, a.1|mɒˈrəʊs|
Also 7 morous, moross.
[ad. L. mōrōs-us peevish, fretful, wayward, fastidious, scrupulous (transf. of things, hard to manage), f. mōr-, mōs manner: see moral a. and -ose.]
1. Of persons, their attributes and actions: Sour-tempered, sullen, gloomy, and unsocial.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Morosus, waywarde: frowarde: overthwarte: morose: diuers in condition: harde to please. [1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. Dram. Pers. (1620), Morose, a Gentleman that loues no noyse.] 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 166 Neither..am I against sauces so morose as that I doe altogether deny them. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §185 He was a man of very morose manners, and a very sowr aspect. 1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables xiv. 458 They were..of very morose countenances, as greatly mortified, and strangers to the world. a1770Jortin Serm. (1771) VI. i. 18 A man should not give way to a morose, captious and cavilling humour and be eager to find fault. 1775Mason Mem. Gray Poems 119 He was also morose, unsocial, and obstinate. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 242 There are very few so obstinately morose, as to be uninfluenced by the opinions of others. 1853C. Brontë Villette xi, She looked stony and stern, almost mortified and morose. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 3 No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. 1907Spectator 5 Jan. 9/2 That great morose genius [sc. Swift].
absol.1620T. Granger Div. Logike 275 This to delight, to moue, and to allure with wiles, euen the refractory, and morose. 1762Goldsm. Nash 40 Let the morose and grave censure an attention to forms and ceremonies.
b. of opinions, principles, etc.
1791Maxwell in Boswell Johnson an. 1770, His philosophy..was by no means morose and cynical. 1838Lytton Alice ii. iv, Morbid and morose philosophy, begot by a proud spirit on a lonely heart. 1861J. A. Alexander Gospel of Christ xiv. 194 Pleasures which a more morose religion would proscribe as dangerous.
c. transf.
1658Franck North. Mem. (1821) 311 The carp is a fish complicated of a moross mixture, and a torpid motion. 1902A. Lang Hist. Scot. II. v. 104 Mary's arrival was darkened by the morose climate.
†2. Scrupulous, painstaking. Obs.
1696Bentley Serm. ix. (1724) 354 Unworthy of the most cautious and morose searcher of truth. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 482 He was a very morose interpreter.
†3. Of a thing: Hard to manage. Obs.
1652L. S. People's Liberty xxii. 53 This knot is somewhat morose, and will not easily be untied.
4. Comb., as morose-looking, morose-natured.
1845James Arrah Neil ii, The elder of the two was a hard-featured somewhat morose-looking personage. 1884J. Payn Lit. Recollect. 62 A morose-natured man.
▪ II. morose, a.2 rare.|mɒˈrəʊs|
Cf. morous a.
[ad. late L. morōs-us, f. mora delay: see -ose.]
1. Casuistry. Chiefly in the phrase morose delectation, the habit of dwelling with enjoyment upon evil thoughts. So morose thoughts.
Aquinas uses morosa delectatio as a term already established, and discusses its meaning, connecting it with mora delay and its derivative immorārī to linger upon. Cf. St. Augustine De Civ. Dei xxii. xxiii, Ne in eo quod male delectat vel visio vel cogitatio remoretur.
1644Hammond Pract. Catech. ii. §6 (1646) 77 All morose thoughts, i.e. dwelling or insisting on that image, or phansying of such unclean matter with delectation. 1651Jer. Taylor Holy Dying iii. §9 We may suspect Drunkenness, when it may be also a morose delectation in Unclean thoughts. 1661Bp. Nicholson Exp. Catech. (1663) 123 In this Commandment are forbidden..All that feeds this sin [adultery], or are incentives to it: as..3. Morose thoughts, that dwell in the phancy with delight.
2. Civil Law. (See quot.)
1875Poste Gaius iii. 449 If he is Morose (a debtor chargeable with mora). |