Libertine \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[i^]n), n. [L. libertinus freedman,
from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin.
See Liberal.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the
son of a freedman.
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2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
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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.
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Like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
--Shak.
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4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Libertine \Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F.
libertin. See Libertine, n. ]
1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]
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You are too much libertine. --Beau. & Fl.
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2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as,
libertine principles or manners. --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
libertine
adj : unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched,
degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, profligate,
riotous, fast]
n : a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally
unrestrained [syn: debauchee, rounder]
WordNet (r) 2.0
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "libertine":
Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Paphian, adulterer, amoral, bestial,
broad-minded, carnal, debauched, debauchee, debaucher, decadent,
degenerate, depraved, dirty, dirty old man, dissolute, fast,
filthy, fornicator, free lance, free spirit, free trader,
freethinker, freethinking, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, goatish,
heartbreaker, hircine, horny, immoral, incontinent, independent,
individualist, isolationist, lady-killer, lascivious,
latitudinarian, lecher, lecherous, lewd, liberal, libertarian,
libidinous, licentious, lover-boy, lubricious, lubricous, lustful,
masher, mugwump, neutral, nonpartisan, old goat, open-minded,
philander, philanderer, philandering, profligate, prurient, rake,
rakehell, rakish, randy, reprobate, rip, roue, rounder,
rugged individualist, ruttish, salacious, satyric, satyrical,
seducer, skirt chaser, swinger, third force, third world, tolerant,
unbigoted, walking phallus, wanton, whoremonger, wolf,
woman chaser, womanizer
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Libertine
found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had
been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case
the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been
carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other
Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been
liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from
Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there
established a synagogue.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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