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Webster 1913 Edition

Ethics

Eth′ics

(ĕth′ĭks)
,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
éthique
. See
Ethic
.]
The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions;
as, political or social
ethics
; medical
ethics
.
The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the
ethics
which the Bible has taught.
I. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ethics

ETH'ICS

,
Noun.
The doctrines of morality or social manners; the science of moral philosophy, which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
1.
A system of moral principles; a system of rules for regulating the actions and manners of men in society.
Ethiops martial, black oxyd of iron; iron in the form of a very fine powder, and in the first state of calcination.
Ethiops mineral, a combination of mercury and sulphur, of a black color; black sulphuret of mercury.

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