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Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires. Milton.

To be lustful; to be lascivious. [Obs.]

To be lascivious. [Obs.]

A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton.

Carnal; wordly; lascivious. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Pet. ii. 11.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.] The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.

A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky.

Loose; lascivious. [Obs.] "To depaint lascious wantonness." Holland.

Lasciviousness; wantonness. [Obs.]

Lascivious. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

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

Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." Shak.

Lascivious; wanton; lewd. [R.] This lubric and adulterate age. Dryden.

Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.

Lustful; lascivious. [Obs.] Milton.

Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]

Lascivious; licentious. [R.] F. Harrison.

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.

Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv. The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction. I. Taylor.

Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious. "Their savor is so rammish." Chaucer.