liberty

(lib’ér-ti), n.; pl. liberties (-tiz). [ liberte, libertee, liberty move); within the city liberty; the Northern having Liberties (a part of Philadelphia so named bein cause originally consisting of districts having with certain specific privileges). libidinist We had told him that, if ours [our ve els] did trade din-), within his liberties, they should do it at their own peril. is Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 377. Yet there are no people in the Liberty of Westminster lieved that live in more credit than we do. Foote, The Commi ary, i. libidinosity We dropt with evening on a rustic town sité; Set in a gleaming river’s crescent-curve, Close at the boundary of the liberties. acter Tennyson, Prince , i. libidinous 8. Action or speech not warranted by custom Sp. or propriety; freedom not specially granted; sus, freedom of action or speech beyond the ordious, nary bounds of civility or decorum: as, may I ) With freedom or power (to do something): as, he was not at liberty to disclose the secret. I took one of the janizaries of the place, and paid him haye the usual Tribute, and found myself at perfect liberty to lodgings, do what I pleased. Pococke, Description of the Hast, I. 9. for (ce) Disengaged; not in use. liblong}, I dre ed as well as I could for shivering, and washed grave. when there was a basin at liberty. Libocedrus Charlotte Bronté, Jane Lyre, v. 1847); Cap of Liberty. See cap! and liberty-cap.—Civil liberty. ond See civil, and def. 3, above.—Forest liberties, Gallican nus liberties, jail liberties, See the qualifying words.— Liberties’ Union Act, an English statute of 1850 (13 and 14 It Vict., c. 105), providing for the incorporation of liberties guished with the counties in which they are situated.—Liberty cone, hall. See hall.—Liberty of indifference. See quotation natives from Fleming under def. 1, and indifference.—Liberty of and the pre , freedom of the pre from police restrictions of species, the right to print and publish; liberty to print and publish incense-cedar, without previous permi ion from government. Liberty of ranging the pre is deemed to exist where the only restrictions on wood. the right of publishing are amenability to judicial proce arbor-vitee for damages, or to punishment, after making an actionable libra or criminal publication, and amenability to judicial proce pound to prevent intended publication on proof that it is injurious Hence to rights of private property.—Liberty party, in U.S. hist., An a political party whose leading principle was the abolition of slavery. It arose about 1839, and nominated a candidate an for President in 1840 and in 1844. From 1848 its members commonly generally acted with the Free-soil and later with the Repied publican party.—Natural liberty, the power of acting eyer, as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unle by but the law of nature. Black stone. [Many writers, however, of use natural liberty in the sense ascribed to civil liberty.]— cipal Personal liberty, freedom from restraint of the person.— magnitude Political liberty, freedom from political usurpation; the triangle condition of a people which participates in the making 2. of its own laws, in a state which is not subject to foreign sented domination.—Religious liberty, the right of freely adopting and profe ing opinions on religious subjects, and of beam.—8. worshiping or refraining from worship according to the Roman dictates of conscience, without external control.—To Italian break liberty. See break.=Syn. Independence, etc. (see their Freedom); License, etc. (see leave2, n.). the