(n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a
freedman.
(n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and 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.
(n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his
impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a
rake; a debauchee.
(n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.
(n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
(n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as,
libertine principles or manners.
