There, when his wife had lectured, moralised, and harangued, he had rubbed his feet up and down and had fretted the nap off the Brussels carpet.
"A Book of Ghosts"
Sabine Baring-Gould
What is implied is that only by the acceptance of the moral ideal can the world of men be moralised.
"Evolution"
Frank B. Jevons
Nickie the Kid came to Banklands one pleasant summer day, watched the busy people with a desultory sort of interest, and moralised within himself.
"The Missing Link"
Edward Dyson