Of a literary work, an artistic or dramatic representation, etc.: dealing with the rightness and wrongness of conduct; intended to teach morality…

Of a literary or other artistic work: dealing with virtuous conduct; conducive to virtue, edifying; having a moral purpose. In later use also…

Advisory or hortatory; = paraenetic, adj.

Of the nature of a moral or practical lesson; of or relating to the presentation of a moral.

Advisory or hortatory. Now rare.