Moral

a. [Fr., Pr., & Sp. moral, It. morale, Lat. moralis, from mos, moris, manner, custom, habit, way of life, conduct.] 1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules. Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden.

2. Conformed to rules of right, or to the divine law respecting social duties; virtuous; just; as, certain actions are not moral.
3. Conformed to law and right in exterior deportment; as, he leads a good moral life.
4. Capable of moral action; subject to the moral law.

A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense. Edwards. 5. Of a sort to serve as the basis of action; probable; as, moral certainty; moral evidence. Things of a moral nature may be proved by moral arguments. Tillotson. Moral philosophy, the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded.—Moral sense, the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law.