a manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.-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.-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.-a defamatory name for a freethinker.-free from restraint; uncontrolled.-dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.