morigerous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin morigerus, from mōs, mōris (“custom, manner”) + gerō (“to bear, conduct”).

Adjective

morigerous (comparative more morigerous, superlative most morigerous)

1. (obsolete) obedient; obsequious
   • c. 1600, Alexander Dyce, Timon:

     Timon , thou hast a wife morigerous
     Shee is the onely comfort of my age.

   • 1850, Field,Edward A Journal of a Visitation in the "Hawk" Church Ship, On the Coast of Labrador, and round the Whole Island of Newfoundland, in the year 1849, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (July 1850):

     The men and lads are gentle, I might even say gentlemanly in their manners, most kind and obliging, docile and morigerous, and yet manly and intelligent.

References

• “morigerous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.