libertine
    adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
           debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
           and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
           debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated,
           dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous,
           fast]
    n 1: a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally
         unrestrained [syn: libertine, debauchee, rounder]

Libertine \Lib"er*tine\ (-t[i^]n), 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.
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   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.
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   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.
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            Like a puffed and reckless libertine,
            Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads.
                                                  --Shak.
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   4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]
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Libertine \Lib"er*tine\, a. [L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F.
   libertin. See Libertine, n. ]
   1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]
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            You are too much libertine.           --Beau. & Fl.
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   2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as,
      libertine principles or manners. --Bacon.
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Libertine
   found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had
   been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case
   the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been
   carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other
   Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been
   liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from
   Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there
   established a synagogue.