Ethic

1. Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
   
Ethical dative (Gram.),
a use of the dative of a pronoun to signify that the person or thing spoken of is regarded with interest by some one; as, Quid mihi Celsus agit? How does my friend Celsus do?

1. the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic.
2. a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.