Bible Dictionary: Profligate

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Broken down in principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.

2. (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

3. (n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

4. (v. t.) To drive away; to overcome.

Greek

811. asotos -- wastefully
... Cognate: 811 (akin to , "a prodigal") -- because of "loose living," ie a debauched,
profligate lifestyle (used only in Lk 15:13). See 810 (). ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/811.htm - 6k

Library

If we are to Preserve Our Modesty we must Avoid Fellowship with ...
... by St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. Book I. Chapter XX. If we are to preserve
our modesty we must avoid fellowship with profligate men� ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xx if we are.htm

Sins of Parents visited
... If a family, or a class, or a whole nation becomes incorrigibly profligate, foolish,
base, in three or four generations they will either die out or vanish. ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xxvi sins of parents.htm

Satan's Banquet
... 1. At the first table to which I shall invite your attention, though I beseech
you never to sit down and drink thereat, sit the PROFLIGATE. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/satans banquet.htm

Vesalius the Anatomist {9}
... His profligate career seems to have brought its own punishment. To the
scandal of his father, who tolerated no one's vices save ...
/.../kingsley/historical lectures and essays/vesalius the anatomist 9.htm

The End of Cambyses.
... Cambyses's profligate conduct."He marries his own sisters."Consultation of the Persian
judges."Their opinion."Smerdis."Jealousy of Cambyses."The ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/darius the great/chapter ii the end of.htm

The Eighth Book
... Worse than this, however evil a man is, however profligate, he would rather be falsely
praised than rightly reproved, and prefers to be deceived by the mockery ...
//christianbookshelf.org/salvian/on the government of god/the eighth book.htm

The Jewish Rebellions
... Wicked emperors of Rome and profligate governors of provinces were about to
persecute them. ... He was a peculiarly profligate and luxurious man. ...
/.../kingsley/discipline and other sermons/sermon xv the jewish rebellions.htm

The Baptism in Fire
... another master; then changing the free wilderness for a prison cell, and tortured
by morbid doubts; finally murdered as the victim of a profligate woman's hate ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the baptism in fire.htm

It is Probable, However, that He Meant to Convey Some Such Meaning ...
... And who will not agree that he who burst, accompanied with a flute-player and a
party of revellers, his profligate associates, into the school of the venerable ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lxvii it is probable.htm

Cicero's Opinion of the Roman Republic.
... as it holds together and continues in being, and if they therefore pooh-pooh the
testimony of Sallust to its "utterly wicked and profligate" condition, what ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 21 ciceros opinion of the.htm

Thesaurus

Profligate (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Broken down in principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly
immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. ...
/p/profligate.htm - 7k

Nero
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A Roman emperor notorious for debauchery and barbarous
cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. Int. ...
/n/nero.htm - 41k

Unmanageable (3 Occurrences)
... 21:20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is unmanageable
and rebellious, he hearkeneth not unto our voice; he is a profligate and a ...
/u/unmanageable.htm - 7k

Libertine
... 5. (n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled. 6. (n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate;
loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners. ...
/l/libertine.htm - 7k

Gross (12 Occurrences)
... have been guilty. (WEY). James 5:5 Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent
and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves ...
/g/gross.htm - 11k

Wicked (476 Occurrences)
... Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or
divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of ...
/w/wicked.htm - 37k

Feeding (37 Occurrences)
... close a follower. (WEY). James 5:5 Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent
and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves ...
/f/feeding.htm - 17k

Reform (28 Occurrences)
... to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse
to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform ...
/r/reform.htm - 16k

Riot (14 Occurrences)
... by the Revised Version (British and American) in Luke 15:13 Titus 1:6 1 Peter
4:4 for asotos, asotia, "having no hope of safety," "profligate." In Proverbs 23 ...
/r/riot.htm - 12k

Dissolute (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned
to sensual pleasures; lewd; profligate; wanton; debauched. ...
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Bible Concordance

Profligate (3 Occurrences)

Titus 1:6 wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.
(See RSV)

James 5:5 Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.
(WEY)

Deuteronomy 21:20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is unmanageable and rebellious, he hearkeneth not unto our voice; he is a profligate and a drunkard.
(DBY NIV)

Subtopics

Profligate

Related Terms

Nero

Unmanageable (3 Occurrences)

Libertine

Gross (12 Occurrences)

Wicked (476 Occurrences)

Feeding (37 Occurrences)

Reform (28 Occurrences)

Riot (14 Occurrences)

Dissolute (1 Occurrence)