Webster's Dictionary 1828

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LIBERALIZED

LIB'ERALIZED, participle passive Freed from narrow views and prejudices; made liberal.

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LIBERALIZING

LIB'ERALIZING, participle present tense Rendering liberal; divesting of narrow views and prejudices.

786

LIBERALLY

LIB'ERALLY, adverb1. Bountifully; freely; largely; with munificence.If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not. James 1:5....

787

LIBERATE

LIB'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin libero, from liber, free.]1. To free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; as, to liberate one from duress or imprisonment;...

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LIBERATED

LIB'ERATED, participle passive Freed; released from confinement, restraint or slavery; manumitted.

789

LIBERATING

LIB'ERATING, participle present tense Delivering from restraint or slavery.

790

LIBERATION

LIBERA'TION, noun [Latin liberatio.] The act of delivering from restraint, confinement or slavery.

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LIBERATOR

LIB'ERATOR, noun One who liberates or delivers.

792

LIBERTARIAN

LIBERTA'RIAN, adjective [Latin liber, free; libertas, liberty.]Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.Remove from their ...

793

LIBERTINAGE

LIB'ERTINAGE, noun Libertinism, which is most used.

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LIBERTINE

LIB'ERTINE, noun [Latin libertinus, from liber, free.]1. Among the Romans, a freedman; a person manumitted or set free from legal servitude.2. One unconfined; one free from rest...

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LIBERTINISM

LIB'ERTINISM, noun1. State of a freedman. [Little used.]2. Licentiousness of opinion and practice; an unrestrained indulgence of lust; debauchery; lewdness.

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LIBERTY

LIB'ERTY, noun [Latin libertas, from liber, free.]1. Freedom from restraint, in a general sense, and applicable to the body, or to the will or mind. The body is at liberty when ...

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LIBIDINOUS

LIBID'INOUS, adjective [Latin libidinosus, from libido, lubido, lust, from libeo, libet, lubet, to please, it pleaseth; Eng. love, which see. The root is lib or lub.]Lustful; le...

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LIBIDINOUSLY

LIBID'INOUSLY, adjective Lustfully; with lewd desire.

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LIBIDINOUSNESS

LIBID'INOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being lustful; inordinate appetite for venereal pleasure.

800

LIBIDNIST

LIB'IDNIST, noun One given to lewdness.

801

LIBRA

LI'BRA, noun [Latin] The balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox, in September.

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LIBRARIAN

LIBRA'RIAN, noun [Latin librarius, with a different signification, from liber, bark, a book.]1. The keeper or one who has the care of a library or collection of books.2. One who...

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LIBRARY

LI'BRARY, noun [Latin librarium, libraria, from liber, a book.]1. A collection of books belonging to a private person, or to a public institution or a company.2. An edifice or a...

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LIBRATE

LI'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin libro, from libra, a balance, a level; allied perhaps to Eng. level.]To poise; to balance; to hold in equipoise.LI'BRATE, verb intransitive To m...

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LIBRATION

LIBRA'TION, noun1. The act of balancing or state of being balanced; a state of equipoise, with equal weights on both sides of a center.2. In astronomy, an apparent irregularity ...

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LIBRATORY

LI'BRATORY, adjective Balancing; moving like a balance, as it tends to an equipoise or level.

807

LICE

LICE, plu of louse.

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LICE-BANE

LICE-BANE, noun A plant.

809

LICENSE

LI'CENSE, noun [Latin licentia, from liceo, to be permitted.]1. Leave; permission; authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act. A license may be verbal or written; when ...

810

LICENSER

LI'CENSER, noun One who grants permission; a person authorized to grant permission to others; as a licenser of the press.