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Lib`er*al*is"tic (-s"tk), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.

Lib`er*al"i*ty (-l"*t), n.; pl. Liberalities (- tz). [L. liberalitas: cf. F. libéralité.] 1. The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity.

That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay.

Denham.

2. A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.

Lib`er*al*i*za"tion (- al**z"shn), n. The act of liberalizing.

Lib"er*al*ize (lb"r*al*z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liberalized (-zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liberalizing (-`zng).] [Cf. F. libéraliser.] To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

To open and to liberalize the mind.

Burke.

Lib"er*al*i`zer (-`zr), n. One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.

Lib"er*al*ly, adv. In a liberal manner.

Lib"er*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liberated (- `td); p. pr. & vb. n. Liberating (-`tng).] [L. liberatus, p. p. of liberare to free, fr. liber free. See Liberal, a., and cf. Deliver.] To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

Syn. -- To deliver; free; release. See Deliver.

Lib`er*a"tion (lb`r*"shn), n. [L. liberatio: cf. F. libération. Cf. Livraison.] The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system.

Pownall.

Lib"er*a`tor (lb"r*`tr), n. [L.] One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.

Lib"er*a*to*ry (-*t*r), a. Tending, or serving, to liberate. [R.]

Lib`er*ta"ri*an (-t"r*an), a. [See Liberty.] Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Lib`er*ta"ri*an, n. One who holds to the doctrine of free will.

Lib`er*ta"ri*an*ism (-z'm), n. Libertarian principles or doctrines.

Lib"er*ti*cide (lb"r*t*sd), n. [L. libertas liberty + caedere to kill: cf. (for sense 2) F. liberticide.] 1. The destruction of civil liberty.

2. A destroyer of civil liberty. B. F. Wade.

Lib"er*tin*age (-tn*j), n. [Cf. F. libertinage. See Libertine.] Libertinism; license. [R.]

Lib"er*tine (-tn), 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.

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.