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Definition of Lascivious

1. Adjective. Driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires. "Libidinous orgies"

Definition of Lascivious

1. a. Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.

Definition of Lascivious

1. Adjective. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful. ¹

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Definition of Lascivious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lascivious

Literary usage of Lascivious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The question what constitutes obscene, lewd, lascivious, or indecent ... 2658], making it criminal to transmit any obscene, lewd, or lascivious book, etc., ..."

2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"Open gross lewdness or lascivious conduct is indictable as a misdemeanor at common ... lascivious has an appropriate meaning and signifies the exercise of ..."

3. Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the by Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, George Ticknor Curtis (1863)
"Evidence of secret or private lewdness and lascivious behavior will not support an indictment for open, gross lewdness and lascivious behavior. ..."

4. Criminology by Raffaele Garofalo (1914)
"The Punishment of lascivious Criminals ^ It now becomes necessary to speak of those offenders against chastity who cannot be ranged among the violent ..."

5. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Lewd and lascivious conduct.—Words, gestures or acts suggestive of impure thoughts or passions, if indulged in in private, are beyond the cognizance of the ..."

6. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Lewd and lascivious conduct.—Words, gestures or acts suggestive of impure thoughts or passions, if indulged in in private, are beyond the cognizance of the ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"The lascivious form of a naked Venus was tortured into the discovery of some moral precept, or some physical truth ; and the castration of Atys explained ..."

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