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Ethic   /ˈɛθɪk/   Listen
noun
ethic  n.  
1.
The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic.
Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation.
2.
A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.
Synonyms: ethical code.


adjective
Ethical, Ethic  adj.  Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy. "The ethical meaning of the miracles."
Ethical dative (Gram.), a use of the dative of a pronoun to signify that the person or thing spoken of is regarded with interest by some one; as, Quid mihi Celsus agit? How does my friend Celsus do?





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"Ethic" Quotes from Famous Books



... about business? I thought it was standards. What do those men know about the ethics of journalism? If you put the thing up to him, like as not E.M. Pierce would tell you that an ethic is something a doctor gives you to make ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... reign of law, with ethic rule E'en in the breast of idle fool, (As moon and stars are heavenly pictured Within the breast of ...
— Song-waves • Theodore H. Rand
... so also is there an unnatural harmony, and overcharged music which is accommodated to their taste: but what is according to nature gives pleasure to every one, therefore those who are to contend upon the theatre should be allowed to use this species of music. But in education ethic melody and ethic harmony should be used, which is the Doric, as we have already said, or any other which those philosophers who are skilful in that music which is to be employed in education shall ...
— Politics - A Treatise on Government • Aristotle
... which, according to his code of honour, were absolutely necessary to restore peace and cordiality. We leave the explanation of such anomalies to the labours of craniologists, for they seem to defy all the researches of the Ethic philosopher. ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... be. Neither did Kant when he devised the Categorical Imperative. You have thrown aside a creed, but you have preserved the ethic which was based upon it. To all intents you are a Christian still, and if there is a God in Heaven you will undoubtedly receive your reward. The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. If you keep His laws I don't think He can care a packet of pins whether you ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham


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