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A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

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  1. n. A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
  2. n. 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. n. 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.
  4. n. A defamatory name for a freethinker.
  5. n. Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
  6. n. Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.
  7. adj. unrestrained by convention or morality
  8. n. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
  9. A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
  10. j:44/n:56 n. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained