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moralize: to draw out the hidden meaning of, (gen.) interpret, explain AYL. II. i. 44 “Did he not this spectacle?,” Shr. IV. iv. 81, R3 III. i. 83 “I two meanings in one word,” Lucr. 104; also intr. Ven. 712 “thou hear'st me moralize.”