Lib"er*tin*age (-tn*j), n. [Cf. F. libertinage. See Libertine.]
Libertinism; license. [R.]
Lib"er*tine (-tn), n. [L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made
free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A
manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
3. 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.
Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of
dalliance treads.
Shak.