Verb

To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.

* L'Estrange

This fable is moralized in a common proverb.

* Shakespeare

Did he not moralize this spectacle?

To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.

* Wordsworth

While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed / By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.

To render moral; to correct the morals of.

* D. Ramsay

It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country.

To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.

* Sir Thomas Browne

Good and bad stars moralize not our actions.

To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.

Verb

(moralis)

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}} ----