Līb'er-tīne1, n.
n. [Lat. libertinus, from libertus, one made free, from liber, free; Fr. & Pr. libertin, Sp., Pg., & It. libertino.]
- (Rom. Antiq.) A person manumitted or set free from legal servitude; a freedman.
- One unconfined; one free from restraint.
- A man who lives without restraint of the animal passion; one who leads a dissolute, licentious life; a rake; a debauchee.
- (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected all the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women. Brande.
- One who professes lax or free opinions; a skeptic; a freethinker.