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Webster 1913 Edition
Lascivious
Las-civ′i-ous
(lăs-sĭv′ĭ-ŭs)
, Adj.
[L.
lascivia
wantonness, fr. lascivus
wanton; cf. Gr. λάσταυροσ
lecherous, λῆν
to wish, Skr. lash
to desire.] 1.
Wanton; lewd; lustful;
as,
lascivious
men; lascivious
desires. Milton.
2.
Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.
– Las-civ′i-ous-ly
, adv.
Las-civ′i-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lascivious
LASCIV'IOUS
,Adj.
1.
Loose; wanton; lewd; lustful; as lascivious men; lascivious desires; lascivious eyes.2.
Soft; wanton; luxurious.He capers numbly in a lady's chamber, to the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Definition 2025
lascivious
lascivious
English
Adjective
lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)
- Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:
Synonyms
Translations
wanton
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