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libidinous, a.|lɪˈbɪdɪnəs|
Also 5 lybidynous, lybydynous.
[ad. L. libīdinōs-us, f. libīdin-, libīdo lust: see -ous. Cf. F. libidineux.]
1. Of persons, their lives, actions, desires: Given to, full of, or characterized by lust or lewdness; lustful, lecherous, lewd.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 241 He was lybydynous Thorgh fleshly lust. 1490Caxton Eneydos ix. 36 The grete kyng barbaryn by whom he is repressed fro his lybidynous desire. 1548Hooper Decl. 10 Command. x. 157 A dissolute, commune, and libidinous liefe. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Pref. Wks. 1738 I. 61 Libidinous and ignorant Poetasters, who.. do..lay up vicious Principles in sweet Pills. 1711Addison Spect. No. 90 ⁋1 A lewd Youth..advances by Degrees into a libidinous old Man. 1784Cowper Task v. 660 Libidinous discourse Exhausted, he resorts to solemn themes Of theological and grave import. 1835J. B. Robertson tr. Von Schlegel's Philos. Hist. (1846) 40 Polygamy is indulged in to the most libidinous excess. 1837Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 15 A debauched, merely libidinous mortal.
†2. Provocative of lust. Obs. rare—1.
1601Holland Pliny I. 426 Thus is wine drunke out of libidinous cups.
Hence liˈbidinously adv., lustfully; liˈbidinousness, lustfulness.
1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 25 Boldlie and libidinously. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. vii. §3. 65 For bloud and libidinousnesse hee was held a most vnsatiate fury. 1797W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXIV. 195 The unbridled libidinousness of Giovanni Gaston. 1818Chron. in Ann. Reg. 302 Witness was not prepared to say that laudanum would produce libidinousness. 1882A. Beresford-Hope Brandreths II. xxix. 224 Tigress women, Libidinously baleful. |