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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Preoccupied with sex and sexual desire; lustful.
  2. adj. Obscene; indecent.
  3. adj. Obsolete Wicked.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Ignorant; unlearned; illiterate.
  2. Lay, as opposed to clerical.
  3. Rude; homely; uncultivated.
  4. Worthless; useless.
  5. Bad; vile; vicious; wicked.
  6. Lustful; wanton; lascivious; libidinous.
  7. Synonyms See list under lascivious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
  2. adj. obsolete Lay; not clerical.
  3. adj. obsolete Uneducated.
  4. adj. obsolete Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
  5. adj. obsolete Base, vile, reprehensible.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
  2. adj. Archaic Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.
  3. adj. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.
  4. adj. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires
  2. adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English leud, leued, lewed ("unlearned, lay, lascivious"), from Old English lǣwede ("unlearned, ignorant, lay"), of obscure origin; most likely a derivative of the past participle of lǣwan ("to reveal, betray") in the sense of "exposed as being unlearned" or "easily betrayed, clueless", from Proto-Germanic *lēwijanan (“to betray”), from Proto-Germanic *lēwan (“an opportunity, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to leave”). Cognate with Old High German gilāen, firlāen ("to betray"), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galēwjan, "to give over, betray"), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅, 𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌰 (lēw, lēwa, "an opportunity, cause"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English leued, unlearned, lay, lascivious, from Old English lǣwede, ignorant, lay. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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