| n. | 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. | |
| 4. | A defamatory name for a freethinker. | |
| a. | 1. | Free from restraint; uncontrolled. |
| 2. | Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; |
| Noun | 1. | libertine - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained |
| Adj. | 1. | libertine - unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" |