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Webster 1913 Edition

Libertine

Lib′er-tine

(-tĭn)
,
Noun.
[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.
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.
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.
Shakespeare
4.
A defamatory name for a freethinker.
[Obsolescent]

Lib′er-tine

,
Adj.
[L.
libertinus
of a freedman: cf. F.
libertin
. See
Libertine
,
Noun.
]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Libertine

LIB'ERTINE

,
Noun.
[L. libertinus, from liber, free.]
1.
Among the Romans, a freedman; a person manumitted or set free from legal servitude.
2.
One unconfined; one free from restraint.
3.
A man who lives without restraint of the animal passion; one who indulges his lust without restraint; one who leads a dissolute, licentious life; a rake; a debauchee.

LIB'ERTINE

,
Adj.
Licentious; dissolute; not under the restraint of law or religion; as libertine principles; a libertine life.

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