Ĕth'ic or Ĕth'ic-al, a.

a. [Fr. éthique, Lat. ethicus, Gr. ἠθικός, from ἦθος, custom, usage, the manners and habits or moral nature of man.] Relating to manner or morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing precepts of morality; as, ethic discourses or epistles.

Cicero was himself the author of an ethical system. De Quincey.

The ethical meaning of the miracles would be wholly lost. Trench.