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Tending, or serving, to liberate. [R.]

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Libertarian principles or doctrines.

The destruction of civil liberty.

Libertinism; license. [R.]

nd 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.

The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] Hammond.

But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21.

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

One given to lewdness.

The state or quality of being libidinous; libidinousness. Skelton.

Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious. -- Li*bid"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Li*bid"i*nous*ness, n.

A house or lodging. [Old Slang] B. Jonson.

ign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus libra in almanacs, etc. (b ) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.

Of a pound weight. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who has the care or charge of a library.

The office of a librarian.

A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised. Their parts all liberate on too nice a beam. Clifton.

The act or state of librating. Jer. Taylor.