PROFLIGATE

a. n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

2.
a.

Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. Dryden.

3.
n.

An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. "Such a profligate as Antony." Swift.

4.
v.

To drive away; to overcome.

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