ethic

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ETH'IC ETH'ICAL, adjective [Latin ethicus; Gr. manners.] Relating to manners or morals; treating of morality; delivering precepts of morality; as ethic discourses or epistles.
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