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ing 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. Shak.

Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.

A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. -- Ne*ro"ni*an, a.

To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.

Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.

ose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué. Am illiterate and frivolous old rake. Macaulay.

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.

Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.

Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [Prov. or Low.] Dickens.

A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse. [Slang.]

One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.

state of wretchedness or exhaustion. [Colloq.] G. Eliot. What is called seedness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged. J. S. Blackie.

eping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

To debauch. [Obs.] Shak.

To ravish; to debauch. [R.] Heywood.

A place of bestial debauchery. To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Milton.

To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch. [R.] Congreve.