(a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.
(a.) Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.
(a.) Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.
(a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.
(a.) Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.
(a.) Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.
(a.) Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.
(n.) One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(4) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(5) The bacterial strains did not liberate free patulin from the adduct mixture present in the growth medium.
(6) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(7) CCK-OP and PMA activated phospholipase A (PLA) which liberated lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and free fatty acids from membrane phosphatidylcholine.
(8) Yet it is liberal Muslims such as Sadiq Khan who are best placed to challenge extremist views within their own communities.
(9) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(11) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
(12) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
(13) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
(14) ), like phenoxybenzamine, blocked responses to field stimulation, but failed to modify release and subsequent metabolism of NA liberated by field stimulation.8.
(15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(16) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
(17) The kidney KGA activity was compared with the urinary KGA activity, and the following properties were found to be the same: molecular dimension, pH optimum, effect of inhibitors, and ability to liberate kinins from kininogens.3.
(18) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(19) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(20) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
Libertine
Definition:
(n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
(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.
(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.
(n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.
(n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
(n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(2) The concrete poet and lyricist Torquato Neto saw Tropicália as "not liberal but libertine".
(3) Fresh from positive reviews of their comeback album, the Libertines score their fourth top 40 today with Anthems for Doomed Youth at No 3, while former chart-topper Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh slides two places to No 4.
(4) In his late 20s, when The Mighty Boosh became successful, he did start drinking and drugging, hanging out with Amy Winehouse and the Libertines.
(5) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
(6) Meanwhile, Corbyn chants were taking place at other concerts around the country – at a Mac DeMarco gig as well as at the Wirral Live music festival at the Tranmere Rovers’ ground, where Corbyn gave a speech before the Libertines headlined.
(7) "He turned up to a Dirty Pretty Things show with loads of free clothes," recalls Carl Barât, Doherty's sometime bandmate, referring to his post-Libertines project.
(8) By 1963, media allegations that Profumo had fallen into a honey trap in which Keeler was manipulated by her osteopath friend Stephen Ward (damned by hacks as a reckless libertine with MI5 and Kremlin contacts) into luring her Tory lover to blab nuclear secrets that were passed on to the Kremlin became so nearly ubiquitous that the minister felt compelled to make a statement to the House.
(9) The public wasn't informed of the slightly libertine side of his personal life."
(10) Sex allegations In last Sunday's Observer Henry Porter compared him to the 18th-century libertine, John Wilkes.
(11) "Because we aren't a dance band, because we don't sound like the Libertines.
(12) McLaren's provocative influence can be detected in everything from Damien Hirst's art and contrary bands such as the Libertines and Oasis to the mainstream punk clothes on sale in Top Shop.
(13) Carl Barat, The French House , Soho, London Carl Barat, former Libertine, in The French House pub in Soho, London.
(14) The Georgians were not all freewheeling libertines or enlightened sceptics.
(15) While it is absolutely the responsibility of the adult to ensure they do not abuse children, this is irrelevant in the cases under discussion because the victims were not carefree libertines inspired by Erica Jong's notion of the zipless fuck .