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lecherous, a. arch.|ˈlɛtʃərəs|
Forms: 4 licheros, lycher(o)us, le(t)cherouse, 4–5 leccherous, 4–6 licherous, 5 lychorous, luchrus, 5–6 lichorous, 6 lecheros, -us, licharus, leicherous, 6–8 letcherous, 4– lecherous.
[a. OF. lecheros, etc., f. lecheur lecher n.: see -ous. Cf. lickerous.]
1. Addicted to lechery.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 7989 Þys was a prest ryȝt amerous—And amerous men are leccherous. c1386Chaucer Prol. 626 As hoot he was, and lecherous, as a sparwe. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xv. 69 Men er so prowde, so enuyous, so grete glotouns, and so licherous. 1500–20Dunbar Poems l. 41 He said he was ane licheruss bull, That croynd bayth day and nycht. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 315 Nero that beast and lecherous monster. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 609 Remorselesse, Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles villaine! 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 79 Semiramis..a lecherous and bloudie woman was worshipped by the name of the Syrian Goddesse. 1773Brydone Sicily xx. (1809) 213 Lazy, lying, lecherous monks. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 125 Thy murderous, and lecherous race Have sat too long i' the holy place.
b. Of action, thought, etc.: Consisting in or characterized by lechery.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 65 Licheros lif þei led. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 194 Ich had lykynge to lauhe of lecherous tales. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. lxxxvii. (1495) 583 It chasteth lecherous meuynges and maketh good mynde. a1400–50Alexander 4328 And to na licherous lustes leeue ve oure membris. 1533Gau Richt Vay 16 Thay..thinkkis lichorous thochttis. 1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 216 Ȝit war his factis sa lichorus. 1611Cotgr., Saffreté, wanton dallying, leacherous ieasting, lasciuious toying. 1884Chr. Treasury Feb. 97/2 Absalom's plot to assassinate his eldest brother had no justification in the lecherous crime of that guilty brother.
c. Of drink, etc.: Inciting to lechery.
1382Wyclif Prov. xx. 1 A leccherous thing win. c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 221. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. ii. 25 Loth in hus lyue thorw lecherouse drynke Wykkydlich wroghte. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ii. 152 He sett out sum leicherous lawis, that his flagitious gaird..mycht haue occasione frilie to louse a brydle to al thair appetites. 1632Sherwood, Lecherous stuffe, poudre agrippine. [Cotgr., Pouldre Agrippine, any meat, that prouokes, or enables, vnto lust.]
†2. = lickerous:
a. fond of good living, gluttonous;
b. (of food) rich, dainty. Obs.
1474Caxton Chesse 112 The sight of the noble and lichorous metis. 1483― G. de la Tour B vij, How they ought not..to yeue flesshe ne lychorous metes to houndes. c1483― Dialogues viii. 33 Car elle est moult gloutee, For she is moche lichorous. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) II. 228 With gluttony and lichorous appetyte.
Hence ˈlecherously adv., ˈlecherousness.
1340Ayenb. 128 Þe guode mannes zone þet..leuede lecherusliche. 1382Wyclif Luke xv. 13 There he wastide his substaunce in lyuynge leccherously. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 1651 One leccherously lyving consumes his substaunce. 1551Bible Isa. lvi. Notes, They were..dryuen into y⊇ profounde and deepe sleepe of ygnoraunce, of idlenes, of lecherousnesse, and of pride. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Luxuriosamente, lecherouslie. 1895Min. 9th Nat. Council Congreg. Ch. U.S.A. 138 Laws against all manner of lecherousness. 1972Daily Tel. 12 May 12/8 Amorous delusions concerning..a lecherously attentive neighbour and her kindly but pre-occupied husband. |