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by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. A wit that no licentious pertness knows. Savage.

ssion of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

inks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly.

Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.

A gay, licentious person. [Obs.]

bor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.

Licentious pleasure; lust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. Spenser.

Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. Shelley.

ood morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed.

Freely; licentiously. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious. " Most like a liberal villain." Shak.

Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. Bacon.

Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.

over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb. The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. Spenser. I see them lording it in London streets. Shak. And lorded over them whom now they serve. Milton.

Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Milton.

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

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