libertine

& a. [Lat. liber tin us =(a.) pertaining to a freedman, (s.) a freedman; from libertus =a freedman; liber, free; Fr. libertin; Sp., Port., & Ital. libertino.] IMG:content-0519.png:[blocks in formation] "When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine , is still." Shakesp.: Henry V. , i. 1. 5. A freeman of a corporate town or city. II. Technically : 1. Church Hist .: A Flemish sect of Antinomians, who called themselves "Spirituals." They pa ed into France, where they were patronized by Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I. They held that, as God was the author of all human actions, no human action could be evil; that religion consisted in union with God by contemplation, and that any one who had attained to this could act as he pleased. Calvin wrote strongly against them. ( Blunt .) IMG:content-0520.png:[blocks in formation] *1. Freethinking, latitudinarian. 2. Loose, licentious, profligate, lewd, debauched, di olute; as, a libertine life.