Do we say morays or mores

morays 1 occurrences

"I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Morays' silver star, Waves o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake came winding far!SCOTT."Merchant's School Gram., p. 143.

mores 93 occurrences

The tempora and the mores should be plastic to our touch.

in bad taste vulgar, unrefined. coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming^, unpresentable^; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful &c (ugly) 846.

[Lat.], O tempora!^, O mores!, ough!, sic transit gloria mundi!

Phr. honores mutant mores [Lat.].

[Law]. undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled. forfeited, disfranchised. improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming, misbecoming^; seemless^; contra bonos mores

[Contr.], forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!^, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!, 933.

O tempora!^, O mores!,

O tempora!^, O mores!, Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo

"Scilicet expectas ut tradat mater honestos Atque alios mores quam quos habet?" "If the mother be dishonest, in all likelihood the daughter will matrizare, take after her in all good qualities," "Creden' Pasiphae non tauripotente futuram Tauripetam?" "If the dam trot, the foal will not amble."

No man, saith our Saviour, can serve two masters, but he must love the one and hate the other," &c., bonos vel malos mores, boni vel mali faciunt amores, Austin well infers: and this is that which all the fathers inculcate.

For why should any one nation, as he there pleads, challenge that universality of God, Deum suum quem nec ostendunt, nec vident, discurrantem silicet et ubique praesentem, in omnium mores, actus, et occultas, cogitationes inquirentem, &c., as Christians do: let every province enjoy their liberty in this behalf, worship one God, or all as they will, and are informed.

7. Cum judicio, mores et facta recognoscit et se intuetur.

Turpe enim est homini ignorare sui corporis (ut ita dicam) aedificium, praesertim cum ad valetudinem et mores haec cognitio plurimum conducat.

an mores sequantur, &c. 997.

Non tam (inquit Hippocrates) gibbos et cicatrices oris et corporis habitum agnoscis ex iis, sed verum incessum gestus, mores, morbos, &c. 1317.

Mores sequuntur temperaturam corporis.

Semper amavi ut tu scis, M. Brutum propter ejus summum ingenium, suavissimos mores, singularem probitatem et constantiam: nihil est, mihi crede, virtute formosius, nihil amabilius. 4557.

3. uxorem duxit Spartae mulierum omnium post Helenam formosissimam, at ob mores omnium turpissimam.

[Footnote 5: Henry Mores Divine Dialogues.]

Id vero est, quod ego mihi puto palmarium, Me reperisse, quomodo adolescentulus Meretricum ingenia et mores possit noscere: Mature ut cum cognórit perpetuo oderit.

Notandi sunt tibi Mores.

Addison 'Qui mores hominun multorum vidit?' Hor.

HILLYER, VIRGIL MORES.

Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros.

120 Nec magis expressi vultus per ahenea signa, Quam per vatis opus mores, animique, virorum Clarorum apparent.... HOR.

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