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to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin.…

Dissolute; dissipated. "A coarse and debauched look." Ld. Lytton.

In a profligate manner.

The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.

ion from virtue, duty, or allegiance. The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke.

The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.

Debauchedness. [Obs.]

To ravish; to debauch. Burton.

Debauched in character or practice; impure. Milton.

Wild raving or debauchery. [R.] Prynne.

To debauch. [Obs.] "A deboshed lady." Beau. & Fl.

Debauchment. [Obs.]

To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate. The husband murder'd and the wife defiled. Prior.

To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden.

to discourage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

ty of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc. Debauched principles and flagitious practices. I. Taylor.