a. 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.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 241. He was lybydynous Thorgh fleshly lust.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, ix. 36. The grete kyng barbaryn by whom he is repressed fro his lybidynous desire.
1548. Hooper, Decl. 10 Command., x. 157. A dissolute, commune, and libidinous liefe.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., II. Pref., Wks. 1738, I. 61. Libidinous and ignorant Poetasters, who … do … lay up vicious Principles in sweet Pills.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 90, ¶ 1. A lewd Youth … advances by Degrees into a libidinous old Man.
1784. Cowper, Task, V. 660. Libidinous discourse Exhausted, he resorts to solemn themes Of theological and grave import.
1835. J. B. Robertson, trans. von Schlegel’s Philos. Hist. (1846), 40. Polygamy is indulged in to the most libidinous excess.
1837. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), IV. 15. A debauched, merely libidinous mortal.
† 2. Provocative of lust. Obs. rare–1.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 426. Thus is wine drunke out of libidinous cups.
Hence Libidinously adv., lustfully; Libidinousness, lustfulness.
1602. Fulbecke, Pandectes, 25. Boldlie and libidinously.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. vii. § 3. 65. For bloud and libidinousnesse hee was held a most vnsatiate fury.
1797. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXIV. 195. The unbridled libidinousness of Giovanni Gaston.
1818. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 302. Witness was not prepared to say that laudanum would produce libidinousness.
1882. Beresf. Hope, Brandreths, II. xxix. 224. Tigress women, Libidinously baleful.
