Search Legal Terms and Definitions. preliminary hearing. n. in criminal law, a hearing to determine if a person charged with a felony (a serious crime punishable by a term in the state prison) should be tried for the crime charged, based on whether there is some substantial evidence that he/she committed the crime.
On Hume 's view, the judgments and recommendations of traditional morality arise not from reason, but from a moral sense. As a straightforward matter of fact (discoverable by experience), virtue is always accompanied by a feeling of pleasure, and vice by a feeling of pain.
Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 7 votes)Rate this definition: moral, lesson(adj) the significance of a story or event. the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor. moral(adj) concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles.