ethicizev.
/ˈɛθᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɛθəˌsaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To discuss or think about ethics; to speak or write on morals, moralize. Somewhat rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > philosophize on ethics [verb (intransitive)]
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1816 G. Colman Eccentricities Edinb. 20 They criticise, Chop logick, ethicize, philosophize.
1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 1 60 But let me not be misinterpreted, as if seeking or wishing to ethicize in dulness.
2009 S. K. Robisch Wolves & Wolf Myth in Amer. Lit. xv. 321 Such a moment..calls on us to both essentialize and ethicize.
2. transitive. To make ethical; to introduce an ethical element into.
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society > morality > give moral quality to [verb (transitive)]
moralize1592
ethicize1836
1836 W. Dobson tr. F. Schleiermacher Introd. Dialogues Plato iii. 414 Natural philosophy is itself ethicised [Ger. ethisirt] by the idea of the good which is placed at the summit of it.
1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory (1889) II. 424 By naturalizing Ethics [the school of Herbert Spencer] reverses the idealizing process which rather ethicizes nature.
1889 W. B. Carpenter Bampton Lect. vii. 276 The creed..becomes ethicized.
1914 Harvard Theol. Rev. 7 511 While they were able to ethicize the myth of doom, they were not able to ethicize the myth of hope.
1969 J. L. Mays Amos ii. xvii. 102 The cultic dogma is with one stroke ethicized and personalized.
1999 G. Van Cromphout Emerson's Ethics vi. 133 Emerson ethicizes the individual's relation to nature by making such morally relevant concepts as striving and desire part of his ideal theory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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