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Definition of Profligate

Profligate
Profligate Prof"li*gate, n. An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. ``Such a profligate as Antony.' --Swift.
Profligate
Profligate Prof"li*gate, v. t. To drive away; to overcome. Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] --Harvey.
Profligate
Profligate Prof"li*gate, a. [L. profligatus, p. p. of profligare to strike or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to fligere to strike. See Afflict.] 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. --Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. A race more profligate than we. --Roscommon. Made prostitute and profligate muse. --Dryden. Syn: Abandoned; corrupt; dissolute; vitiated; depraved; vicious; wicked. See Abandoned.

Meaning of Profligate from wikipedia

- A spendthrift (also profligate or prodigal) is someone who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful with money, often to a point where the spending climbs...
- Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779), British MP for Bewdley, 1768 and profligate, dubbed "the wicked Lord Lyttelton" and "bad Lord Lyttelton" Thomas Lyttelton...
- Wilmington, Michael (5 January 2003). "Polanski's 'Pianist' may put 'profligate dwarf' in better light". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 25 November 2012....
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- Chapter) of the Skanda Purana recounts the remarkable story of Vahika, a profligate and unrepentant sinner, who is killed by a tiger in the forest. His soul...
- and other goods from England, paying for them by exporting tobacco. His profligate spending combined with low tobacco prices left him £1,800 in debt by 1764...
- which required him to keep order among the many new bodies and prevent profligate spending that strained relations as well as finances. Cromwell's reforms...
- services; the sculptor had been the favourite artist of the previous and profligate Barberini pope, Urban VIII. Without papal patronage, the services of Bernini's...
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- He then established his residence in Carlton House, where he lived a profligate life. Animosity developed between the prince and his father, who desired...