(a.) Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.
(a.) Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life.
Example Sentences:
(1) A poll in April found that 43% of Russians considered homosexuality to be "licentiousness, a bad habit" and 35% said it was an "illness or the result of psychological trauma".
(2) The paper examines two aspects of coitus interruptus as a sexual practice: (1) how, in the age of fertility decline in Western Europe, its meaning was reinterpreted from an earlier theological view that condemned it as licentious to a nineteenth century view that emphasized restraint, and (2) how it was actually experienced by a socially stratified birth-controlling population in rural Sicily, ca 1900-1970.
(3) Fictional stereotypes of Romany women revolve around their supposed sexual licentiousness – Carmen or Esmeralda – or their psychic powers; whereas Romany men have been portrayed at best as symbols of wild freedom, as in DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy or at worst, as liars and thieves.
(4) Licentiate theses in nursing science produced in Finland in 1982-87 are analysed in terms of their frame of reference, methodology, data collection techniques and analytical methods.
(5) A brief review is given of the Supplementary Licentiate Program in Nursing at a Distance offered by the Nursing Departament of the Valle University, Cali, Colombia.
(6) Separately, Chinese-American blogger and outspoken government critic Charles Xue was released on bail on Wednesday after being arrested in August for suspected involvement in prostitution and "group licentiousness", a euphemism for group sex.
(7) Of the 264 respondents, 200 were qualified and 50 were interns undergoing training at the local Medical College in Jabalpur, India and 14 were licentiates.
(8) Education Epsom College; Guy's hospital and University of Southampton; PhD Disability and equality: a new approach; MSc rehabilitation studies; licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons.
(9) He later became disfranchised by the Company of Surgeons in order to obtain the Licentiate of the College of Physicians.
(10) George Gilbert Scott Jr, Sir Gilbert's son and another brilliant architect, ended his days, after a drunken and licentious reverie in Paris, divorced and quite mad in one of the bedrooms of the Midland Grand - in the architectural clutches, as it were, of his famous father.
(11) The puritan inspectors of souls in 17th-century New England deplored even the tentative embrace of Bacchus as "great licentiousness", the faithful "pouring out themselves in all profaneness", but the record doesn't show a falling off of attendance at Boston's 18th-century inns and taverns.
(12) Denmark and Norway have a licentiate degree in addition to the doctor's degree.
(13) The licentiate studies in both countries are a three years graduate course with a major subject and 2--3 minors and a research project.
(14) This kind of stereotyping – Italians with cowardice, Irish with stupidity, French with licentiousness, Americans with cultural shallowness, English with snobbery or emotional constipation – is mostly associated with rather coarse or lazy habits of mind, but it isn’t generally called antiScotsism, antiItalianism, or antiIrishism etc.
(15) The majority of the practitioners recommended that breast feeding be initiated within 12-48 hours after birth, but licentiates advocated beginning breast feeding on the 2nd and 3rd days.
Wild
Definition:
(superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
(superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
(superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
(superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
(superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
(superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
(superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
(superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
(n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
(adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
(6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
(9) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
(12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
(15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
(17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
(19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.