lib·er·tine /ˈlɪbɚ/
 放蕩者,玩樂者,浪子,自由思想家(a.)放蕩的


 Lib·er·tine n.
 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.
 4. A defamatory name for a freethinker. [Obsolescent]


 Lib·er·tine, a.
 1. Free from restraint; uncontrolled. [Obs.]
    You are too much libertine.   --Beau. & Fl.
 2. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

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 libertine
      adj : unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
            debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
            and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched,
             degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, profligate,
             riotous, fast]
      n : a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally
          unrestrained [syn: debauchee, rounder]


 Libertine
    found only Acts 6:9, one who once had been a slave, but who had
    been set at liberty, or the child of such a person. In this case
    the name probably denotes those descendants of Jews who had been
    carried captives to Rome as prisoners of war by Pompey and other
    Roman generals in the Syrian wars, and had afterwards been
    liberated. In A.D. 19 these manumitted Jews were banished from
    Rome. Many of them found their way to Jerusalem, and there
    established a synagogue.