moralizare

moralizare [ML] , to moralize, interpret according to the moral sense. b (p. ppl.) interpreted according to the moral sense. hec autem breviter ~asse sufficiat Bradw. CD 395E; literalis autem [sc. sensus] secundum principia Augustini habet summam auctoritatem, alii autem sensus nisi de quanto fundantur in sensu isto autentico vel evidencia racionis quia aliter quilibet posset moralisare vel trahere auctoritatem scripture ad sensum quem vellet habere Wycl. Euch. 341 (= Netter DAF II 230va).  b 1443 Ovidium Metamorphoses ~atum (Catal. Librorum) MunAcOx 772; 1510 Cato moralisatus in papiro Cant. Coll. Ox. I 46.