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Libertine

Libertine (libertine)
n.(-t***ibreve]n)
Lib"er*tine
[L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal.]
  1. A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
  2. One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
  3. One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.

    Like a puffed and reckless libertine,
    Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.     Shak.

  4. A defamatory name for a freethinker.
    [Obsoles.]

Libertine

Libertine (libertine)
a.
Lib"er*tine
  1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
    [Obs.]

    You are too much libertine. Beau. *** Fl.

  2. Dissolute] licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.
    Bacon.












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