v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. intr. To discuss ethics; to speak or write on morals, moralize. rare.
1816. G. Colman, Br. Grins, Fire, xix. They criticize, chop logic, ethicize, philosophize.
2. trans. To make ethical; to invest with an ethical element.
1885. J. Martineau, Types Ethical Th. (1889), II. 424. By naturalizing Ethics [the school of Herbert Spencer] reverses the idealizing process which rather ethicizes nature.
1889. Boyd Carpenter, Bampton Lect., vii. 276. The creed … becomes ethicized.
