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<hw>Lib`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>liberatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>lib\'82ration</ets>. Cf. <er>Livraison</er>.]</ety> <def>The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.</def>

<blockquote>This mode of analysis requires perfect <b>liberation</b> from all prejudged system. <i>Pownall.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Liberator</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib"er*a`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.</def>

<h1>Liberatory</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib"er*a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending, or serving, to liberate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Libertarian</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib`er*ta"ri*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Liberty</er>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.</def>

<h1>Libertarian</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib`er*ta"ri*an</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who holds to the doctrine of free will.</def>

<h1>Libertarianism</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib`er*ta"ri*an*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Libertarian principles or doctrines.</def>

<h1>Liberticide</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib"er*ti*cide</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>libertas</ets> liberty + <ets>caedere</ets> to kill: cf. (for sense 2) F. <ets>liberticide</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The destruction of civil liberty.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A destroyer of civil liberty.</def>

<i>B. F. Wade.</i>

<h1>Libertinage</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib"er*tin*age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>libertinage</ets>. See <er>Libertine</er>.]</ety> <def>Libertinism; license.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Libertine</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib"er*tine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>libertinus</ets> freedman, from <ets>libertus</ets> one made free, fr. <ets>liber</ets> free: cf. F. <ets>libertin</ets>. See <er>Liberal</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Rom. Antiq.)</fld> <def>A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Like a puffed and reckless <b>libertine</b>, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A defamatory name for a freethinker.</def> <mark>[Obsoles.]</mark>

<h1>Libertine</h1> <Xpage=848>

<hw>Lib"er*tine</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>libertinus</ets> of a freedman: cf. F. <ets>libertin</ets>. See <er>Libertine</er>, <tt>n.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Free from restraint; uncontrolled.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>You are too much <b>libertine</b>. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; <as>as, <ex>libertine</ex> principles or manners</as>.</def>