profligateadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈprɒflᵻɡət/, U.S.

/ˈprɑfləɡət/,

/ˈprɑfləˌɡeɪt/

Forms: 1500s– profligate, 1600s proflygate, 1600s–1700s proffligate; Scottish pre-1700 proflagat, pre-1700 profligat, pre-1700 proflogat, 1700s proffligate, 1700s– profligate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōflīgātus.

Etymology: < classical Latin prōflīgātus overthrown, overwhelmed, ruined, dissolute, depraved, past participle (also used as adjective) of prōflīgāre profligate v.

A. adj.

†I. As a past participle.

1. Overthrown, routed. Cf. profligate v. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective]

matec1225

conquestc1400

convictc1430

triumphate1471

devict?a1475

vanquishedc1485

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overcome1530

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discomfited1538

defeatc1540

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overmastereda1586

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profligated1599

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triumphed1605

overcomed1607

fight-rac't?1611

convicteda1616

worsted1641

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lost1822

defeateda1859

outfought1891

1535 T. Legh & J. Rice Let. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lvii. 145 The Canon laws..with their Author, are profligate out of this realm.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxviij By whiche onely pollicie, the kynges armie was profligate and dispersed.

1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 214 The conspiratouris..wer profligat and disapointit.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 45 I doubt not but God will rather ayde us..then see us vanquished, and profligate by such as neither feare him, nor his Laws.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 218 The Foe is profligate and run.

II. Adjectival uses.

2. Given to or characterized by licentiousness; debauched.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [adjective]

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desolatec1386

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castaway?1542

bastardlyc1567

regenerate1596

perdite1625

profligate1627

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abandoned1690

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective]

wild13..

desolatec1386

unthrifty1388

riotousc1405

resolute?a1475

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1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 71 All Prodigall and Profligate Persons, who by Ryot of Lascivious and Distemperate Lyfe, doe destroy their Patrimonie.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 39 When States are so reformed, that they conforme such as are profligate, into good civility.

1714 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. (ed. 2) II. 157 Sometimes the most profligate sinners are seated at the upper end of the world.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 77. ⁋10 Profligate in their lives, and licentious in their compositions.

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. i. 75 Paul, bishop of Samosata..said to have been of a profligate life.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 68 Sir Charles Sedley, one of the most brilliant and profligate wits of the Restoration.

1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism ii. 24 They will..brand him as immoral, profligate, filthy, and appeal against him to the despised Philistines.

1920 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 6 June Bevies of beautiful women; pomp of power; excess of a profligate court.

1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye x. 201 He gathered together the scrap ends of his profligate experience..and turned them into a lot of cock-eyed books.

1992 L. Kinsale Flowers from Storm i. 16 He is all that is worst in the aristocracy. Profligate, licentious and godless.

a. Recklessly extravagant, esp. with money; wasteful.In early use, difficult to distinguish from sense A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective]

largea1225

fool-largec1325

costlewa1387

outragea1400

riotousc1405

sumptuousa1425

superfluea1425

prodigatec1429

profuse?a1475

lavishc1475

prodigalc1485

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prodigaleousa1500

superfluous1531

wasteful1538

costly?1555

prodigal1570

overlavish1573

squandering1589

lavishing1598

spenseful1600

expenseful1605

spendthrift1607

spendful1611

dingthrifty1615

impendious1623

expensive1628

unthriftya1631

spendthrifty1642

flush1703

extravagant1711

profligate1718

dispendious1727

wastry1791

wasterful1821

wastrife1822

prodigalish1857

high-rolling1890

wastrel1896

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > wasted

castaway?1542

consumed1580

profligated1599

profligate1718

wasted1741

1718 Surly Match-maker Fitted i. 17 A great estate falling to a profligate Spendthrift, makes him break forth into all manner of Extravagancies.

1776 ‘Saint from Tabernacle’ Serm. upon Turf (ed. 2) 18 The most successful in laying their money are, (generally speaking) the most profligate in spending it.

1822 J. Galt Provost xvii. 197 It would be a profligate waste of the public money to employ it on any thing so little required as lamps were in our streets.

1893 National Observer 1 July 176/2 The author's burning anxiety to ‘get at’ capital, his profligate disregard of national prosperity.

1930 Iowa Recorder 19 Feb. 2/1 It is this condition along with profligate spending that has created a tax problem in Iowa.

1976 MERIP Rep. No. 53. 23 The debts of the profligate Egyptian regime were administered by creditors.

2002 Wired Nov. 146/1 It's easy to dismiss people who would bankroll these projects as profligate spend-alls.

b. Lacking in moderation; abundant.

ΚΠ

1953 School Sci. Rev. Mar. 300 The professional educator is entirely too profligate in his coinage of high-flung phrases.

1988 D. Brin Giving Plague in Otherness (1994) 4 Rhinoviruses and flu are clever, too. They're profligate, and they mutate rapidly.

2001 Times 12 Apr. ii. 4/2 Helping to breed new races of ‘superbugs’ through the profligate use of antibiotics.

B. n.

A profligate person.In quot. 1679: profligate people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > dissolute person > [noun]

unthriftc1330

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profligate1679

rantipole1699

rakehellyc1768

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person

unthriftc1330

riotor1389

rioterc1440

palliard1484

skyrgalliarda1529

rakehellc1560

ranger1560

rakeshame1598

dissolute1608

pavement-beater1611

rakell1622

ranter1652

huzza1660

whorehopper1664

profligate1679

rakehellonian1692

rake1693

buck1725

blood1749

gay blade1750

have-at-alla1761

rakehellyc1768

hell-rake?1774

randan1779

rip1781

roué1781

hell-raker1816

tiger1827

raver1960

dog1994

1679 S. Woodford Legend of Love ii. xxvii, in Paraphrase upon Canticles 85 Make of every Rime an Iron Rod, Wherewith thou mayst the Profligate chastise!

1680 J. Chamberlaine Sacred Poem 101 Let thy compassions shine Upon a wretched Profligate.

1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 64 Colleges were attempted to be garbled, and immemorial Foundations broken in upon..to make Room even for Profligates, if new Converts.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 394 Every profligate in the Country..they take care to wheedle over to strengthen their party.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 259 Like an audacious profligate, as he was.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §7. 420 The wretched profligate found himself again plunged into excesses.

1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop v. i. 147 If you blast their faith by European formalities, they will become infidels and profligates.

1979 J. Rathbone Joseph ii. vi. 270 I hope it is not money you are after, for I have none to spare and no inclination to lend it to a profligate.

1996 S. Mackay in H. Ritchie New Sc. Writing 86 Dod had..a daughter who was threatening to write a biography of..a profligate who had squandered his gifts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

profligatev.

Brit.

/ˈprɒflᵻɡeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈprɑfləˌɡeɪt/

Forms: 1500s– profligate, 1600s proffligate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin prōflīgāt-, prōflīgāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin prōflīgāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of prōflīgāre to defeat, to crush, to subdue, to overwhelm, to ruin or destroy, to perform the greater part of, in post-classical Latin also to waste, dissipate (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), to finish, complete (8th cent., 12th cent. in British sources), to get rid of, banish, put to flight (from c1090 in British sources) < pro- pro- prefix¹ + flīgere to strike down, dash < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ϕλίβειν to rub, chafe, and perhaps Latvian blaīzīt to crush, strike. Compare earlier profligate adj.

†1.

a. transitive. To dispel or overcome (an abstract quality, state, or condition); to cure (a disease or disorder). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn > evil, disease, etc.

profligate1542

quail1551

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > eradicate or extirpate > sin, fear, etc.

updrawc1290

fordo1340

extirp1483

roota1500

dissipate1532

extirpate1538

profligate1542

rout1559

disperse1563

rescind1579

resolve1580

overplough1596

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > dispel (cloud, gloom, or immaterial things)

overdriveOE

discuss?c1400

digesta1513

profligate1542

depel?1548

foil1548

sperse1580

disparkle1601

redisperse1621

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fray1635

dissipate1691

1542 T. Becon Christmas Bankette sig. B.vj With how feruent herte should we profligate and chase away synne.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 99 When Christ is disseised, and dispossest, his truth profligated, and thrown out of a nation, that professed it before.

1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet ix. 80 To profligate your disease, and to reduce you to your former health.

1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 233 Profligating all Barbarity.

1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica xxxviii. 533/2 This Medicament has Profligated the Disease at 3 or 4 times taking of it.

1764 T. Marryat New Pract. Physick (new ed.) 22 This disorder is profligated by the bark, for the same drug will remove the hysteric passion.

1845 Life St. Augustine xix. 195 A dignity..which (to use a forcible Latin word) ‘profligates’ calumny,—not merely wards it off, but routs, and explodes, and shames it.

b. transitive. To overcome, vanquish (an enemy) in battle; to chase away, disperse. Also figurative, esp. in religious contexts. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > conquer or overcome

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shendc893

awinc1000

overwinOE

overheaveOE

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mate?c1225

discomfitc1230

win1297

dauntc1300

cumber1303

scomfit1303

fenkc1320

to bear downc1330

confoundc1330

confusec1330

to do, put arrear1330

oversetc1330

vanquishc1330

conquerc1374

overthrowc1375

oppressc1380

outfighta1382

to put downa1382

discomfortc1384

threshc1384

vencuea1400

depressc1400

venque?1402

ding?a1425

cumrayc1425

to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425

to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430

distrussc1430

supprisec1440

ascomfita1450

to do stress?c1450

victorya1470

to make (win) a conquest1477

convanquish1483

conquest1485

defeat1485

oversailc1485

conques1488

discomfish1488

fulyie1488

distress1489

overpress1489

cravent1490

utter?1533

to give (a person) the overthrow1536

debel1542

convince1548

foil1548

out-war1548

profligate1548

proflige?c1550

expugnate1568

expugn1570

victor1576

dismay1596

damnify1598

triumph1605

convict1607

overman1609

thrash1609

beat1611

debellate1611

import1624

to cut to (or in) pieces1632

maitrise1636

worst1636

forcea1641

outfight1650

outgeneral1767

to cut up1803

smash1813

slosh1890

ream1918

hammer1948

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xiiij^v Hys armye should..profligate and expell all the intrudors and inuadours.

1617 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring Mischeefes Mysterie 15 So we our foes with horrour, greefe and ruth Shall profligate, supplant and quite confound.

1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 117 If you..stay not till the victory be gotten, till your enemy be profligated and abased.

1664 Antipharmacum Saluberrimum 10 Pagan Idolatry, which the light of the Gospel hath long since profligated, and expelled out of these parts of the world.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. viii. 183 You have not yet profligated the Pope quite.

1724 R. Fiddes Life Cardinal Wolsey i. iv. 90 The towne..mightily fortified and by the enemy valiantly defended, by strength gotten and acquired and the said Enemys by their losse profligated.

c. transitive. To ruin, destroy. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn

to-warpc888

overwarpeOE

fallOE

cumber1303

overthrowc1375

overturna1382

subverta1382

overwalta1400

sinka1400

to wend downa1400

tuyrec1400

reverse1402

tirvec1420

pervert?a1425

to put downa1425

cumrayc1425

downthringc1430

overthwart?a1439

thringc1480

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succumb1490

renverse1521

precipitate?1528

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wreck1749

1643 Characters Richelieu 13 Peace by Sea and Land proffligated.

1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 58 Many of the young and beautiful are profligated by slips,—slips so gradual that propriety could hardly call them such at first.

d. transitive. To bring to an end. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1840 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 333 Dedicated to the glory of the exercitus maximus that profligated the German war in three months.

†2. transitive (reflexive). To adopt a licentious, debauched lifestyle. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Profligate one's self, to give himself up to all manner of Vice, Lewdness and Debauchery.

3. transitive. To waste by reckless use or expenditure. Also occasionally intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)]

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scatter1154

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waste1340

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consumec1425

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lasha1535

prodige1538

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to play away1562

riot1566

embezzle1578

dilapidate1590

squander1593

confound1598

to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600

prodigalize1611

profuse1611

squander1611

paddle1616

bezzle1617

to run out of ——1622

to piss away1628

prodigal1628

decoct1629

to bangle (away)1632

debauch1632

deboise1632

to fribble away1633

to fool out1635

to run outa1640

to fiddle away1667

slattera1681

dissipate1682

to play off1693

duck-and-drake1700

liquidate1702

sparkle away1703

waster1821

befool1861

to frivol away1866

to play (at) duck and drake with1872

to fling away1873

mislive1887

slather1904

mucker1928

profligate1938

peter1956

spaff2002

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste

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aspilla1250

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palter1595

profuse1611

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sport1622

to fool away1628

to stream out1628

to fribble away1633

sweal1655

frisk1665

to fiddle away1667

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slattera1681

swattle1681

drivel1686

swatter1690

to muddle away1707

squander1717

sot1746

slattern1747

meisle1808

fritter1820

waster1821

slobber1837

to cut to waste1863

fringe1863

potter1883

putter1911

profligate1938

to piddle away1942

haemorrhage1978

spaff2002

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 122 His Profligating of the lands of his Bishoprick.]

1938 Times 14 June 13/1 We in this country were profligating. There was room for a savings movement in a wider sense.

1973 Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Reporter 11 Sept. 2/2 Warren likened the budget spending to profligating a new inheritance.

1977 Times 2 Mar. 17/5 Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money is profligated each year on trivia.., when it is needed for essentials.

1996 Western Rep. (Canada) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 6 For all the ink spilled and paper profligated recently.., the battle for Canada's future is as much economic as political.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	profligate
释义	profligateadj.n. Brit. /ˈprɒflᵻɡət/, U.S. /ˈprɑfləɡət/, /ˈprɑfləˌɡeɪt/ Forms: 1500s– profligate, 1600s proflygate, 1600s–1700s proffligate; Scottish pre-1700 proflagat, pre-1700 profligat, pre-1700 proflogat, 1700s proffligate, 1700s– profligate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prōflīgātus. Etymology: < classical Latin prōflīgātus overthrown, overwhelmed, ruined, dissolute, depraved, past participle (also used as adjective) of prōflīgāre profligate v. A. adj. †I. As a past participle. 1. Overthrown, routed. Cf. profligate v. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective] matec1225 conquestc1400 convictc1430 triumphate1471 devict?a1475 vanquishedc1485 discomfecta1529 overcome1530 profligate1535 discomfited1538 defeatc1540 discomfishedc1540 suppriseda1547 beaten1550 conquered1552 ydaunted1581 overmastereda1586 expugned1598 profligated1599 tattered1599 triumphed1605 overcomed1607 fight-rac't?1611 convicteda1616 worsted1641 foiled1810 lost1822 defeateda1859 outfought1891 1535 T. Legh & J. Rice Let. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lvii. 145 The Canon laws..with their Author, are profligate out of this realm. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxviij By whiche onely pollicie, the kynges armie was profligate and dispersed. 1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 214 The conspiratouris..wer profligat and disapointit. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 45 I doubt not but God will rather ayde us..then see us vanquished, and profligate by such as neither feare him, nor his Laws. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 218 The Foe is profligate and run. II. Adjectival uses. 2. Given to or characterized by licentiousness; debauched. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [adjective] unkind1340 desolatec1386 unthrifty1388 virtueless1402 unvirtuous1432 dissolutec1475 castaway?1542 bastardlyc1567 regenerate1596 perdite1625 profligate1627 deperdit1641 profligated1652 abandoned1690 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective] wild13.. desolatec1386 unthrifty1388 riotousc1405 resolute?a1475 palliard1484 dissolutea1513 royetous1526 sluttishc1555 rakehell1556 dissolutious1560 rakehelly1579 hell-raking1593 sportive1597 low1599 lavish1600 rakellyc1600 profligate1627 profligated1652 rantipole1660 abandoned1690 raking1696 rakish1696 dissipated1744 dissipating1818 outward1875 1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 71 All Prodigall and Profligate Persons, who by Ryot of Lascivious and Distemperate Lyfe, doe destroy their Patrimonie. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 39 When States are so reformed, that they conforme such as are profligate, into good civility. 1714 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. (ed. 2) II. 157 Sometimes the most profligate sinners are seated at the upper end of the world. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 77. ⁋10 Profligate in their lives, and licentious in their compositions. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. i. 75 Paul, bishop of Samosata..said to have been of a profligate life. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 68 Sir Charles Sedley, one of the most brilliant and profligate wits of the Restoration. 1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism ii. 24 They will..brand him as immoral, profligate, filthy, and appeal against him to the despised Philistines. 1920 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 6 June Bevies of beautiful women; pomp of power; excess of a profligate court. 1960 M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye x. 201 He gathered together the scrap ends of his profligate experience..and turned them into a lot of cock-eyed books. 1992 L. Kinsale Flowers from Storm i. 16 He is all that is worst in the aristocracy. Profligate, licentious and godless. 3. a. Recklessly extravagant, esp. with money; wasteful.In early use, difficult to distinguish from sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective] largea1225 fool-largec1325 costlewa1387 outragea1400 riotousc1405 sumptuousa1425 superfluea1425 prodigatec1429 profuse?a1475 lavishc1475 prodigalc1485 prodiga1492 prodigaleousa1500 superfluous1531 wasteful1538 costly?1555 prodigal1570 overlavish1573 squandering1589 lavishing1598 spenseful1600 expenseful1605 spendthrift1607 spendful1611 dingthrifty1615 impendious1623 expensive1628 unthriftya1631 spendthrifty1642 flush1703 extravagant1711 profligate1718 dispendious1727 wastry1791 wasterful1821 wastrife1822 prodigalish1857 high-rolling1890 wastrel1896 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > wasted castaway?1542 consumed1580 profligated1599 profligate1718 wasted1741 1718 Surly Match-maker Fitted i. 17 A great estate falling to a profligate Spendthrift, makes him break forth into all manner of Extravagancies. 1776 ‘Saint from Tabernacle’ Serm. upon Turf (ed. 2) 18 The most successful in laying their money are, (generally speaking) the most profligate in spending it. 1822 J. Galt Provost xvii. 197 It would be a profligate waste of the public money to employ it on any thing so little required as lamps were in our streets. 1893 National Observer 1 July 176/2 The author's burning anxiety to ‘get at’ capital, his profligate disregard of national prosperity. 1930 Iowa Recorder 19 Feb. 2/1 It is this condition along with profligate spending that has created a tax problem in Iowa. 1976 MERIP Rep. No. 53. 23 The debts of the profligate Egyptian regime were administered by creditors. 2002 Wired Nov. 146/1 It's easy to dismiss people who would bankroll these projects as profligate spend-alls. b. Lacking in moderation; abundant. ΚΠ 1953 School Sci. Rev. Mar. 300 The professional educator is entirely too profligate in his coinage of high-flung phrases. 1988 D. Brin Giving Plague in Otherness (1994) 4 Rhinoviruses and flu are clever, too. They're profligate, and they mutate rapidly. 2001 Times 12 Apr. ii. 4/2 Helping to breed new races of ‘superbugs’ through the profligate use of antibiotics. B. n. A profligate person.In quot. 1679: profligate people as a class. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > dissolute person > [noun] unthriftc1330 castaway1526 degenerate1555 rakehellc1560 ruffian1560 reprobate1592 rakeshame1598 wag-wanton1601 pavement-beater1611 perdu1611 wantoner1665 profligate1679 rantipole1699 rakehellyc1768 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person unthriftc1330 riotor1389 rioterc1440 palliard1484 skyrgalliarda1529 rakehellc1560 ranger1560 rakeshame1598 dissolute1608 pavement-beater1611 rakell1622 ranter1652 huzza1660 whorehopper1664 profligate1679 rakehellonian1692 rake1693 buck1725 blood1749 gay blade1750 have-at-alla1761 rakehellyc1768 hell-rake?1774 randan1779 rip1781 roué1781 hell-raker1816 tiger1827 raver1960 dog1994 1679 S. Woodford Legend of Love ii. xxvii, in Paraphrase upon Canticles 85 Make of every Rime an Iron Rod, Wherewith thou mayst the Profligate chastise! 1680 J. Chamberlaine Sacred Poem 101 Let thy compassions shine Upon a wretched Profligate. 1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 64 Colleges were attempted to be garbled, and immemorial Foundations broken in upon..to make Room even for Profligates, if new Converts. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 394 Every profligate in the Country..they take care to wheedle over to strengthen their party. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 259 Like an audacious profligate, as he was. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §7. 420 The wretched profligate found himself again plunged into excesses. 1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop v. i. 147 If you blast their faith by European formalities, they will become infidels and profligates. 1979 J. Rathbone Joseph ii. vi. 270 I hope it is not money you are after, for I have none to spare and no inclination to lend it to a profligate. 1996 S. Mackay in H. Ritchie New Sc. Writing 86 Dod had..a daughter who was threatening to write a biography of..a profligate who had squandered his gifts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). profligatev. Brit. /ˈprɒflᵻɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈprɑfləˌɡeɪt/ Forms: 1500s– profligate, 1600s proffligate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin prōflīgāt-, prōflīgāre. Etymology: < classical Latin prōflīgāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of prōflīgāre to defeat, to crush, to subdue, to overwhelm, to ruin or destroy, to perform the greater part of, in post-classical Latin also to waste, dissipate (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), to finish, complete (8th cent., 12th cent. in British sources), to get rid of, banish, put to flight (from c1090 in British sources) < pro- pro- prefix¹ + flīgere to strike down, dash < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ϕλίβειν to rub, chafe, and perhaps Latvian blaīzīt to crush, strike. Compare earlier profligate adj. †1. a. transitive. To dispel or overcome (an abstract quality, state, or condition); to cure (a disease or disorder). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn > evil, disease, etc. profligate1542 quail1551 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > eradicate or extirpate > sin, fear, etc. updrawc1290 fordo1340 extirp1483 roota1500 dissipate1532 extirpate1538 profligate1542 rout1559 disperse1563 rescind1579 resolve1580 overplough1596 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > dispel (cloud, gloom, or immaterial things) overdriveOE discuss?c1400 digesta1513 profligate1542 depel?1548 foil1548 sperse1580 disparkle1601 redisperse1621 dispela1631 fray1635 dissipate1691 1542 T. Becon Christmas Bankette sig. B.vj With how feruent herte should we profligate and chase away synne. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 99 When Christ is disseised, and dispossest, his truth profligated, and thrown out of a nation, that professed it before. 1637 T. Brian Pisse-prophet ix. 80 To profligate your disease, and to reduce you to your former health. 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 233 Profligating all Barbarity. 1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica xxxviii. 533/2 This Medicament has Profligated the Disease at 3 or 4 times taking of it. 1764 T. Marryat New Pract. Physick (new ed.) 22 This disorder is profligated by the bark, for the same drug will remove the hysteric passion. 1845 Life St. Augustine xix. 195 A dignity..which (to use a forcible Latin word) ‘profligates’ calumny,—not merely wards it off, but routs, and explodes, and shames it. b. transitive. To overcome, vanquish (an enemy) in battle; to chase away, disperse. Also figurative, esp. in religious contexts. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > conquer or overcome overcomeeOE shendc893 awinc1000 overwinOE overheaveOE to lay downa1225 mate?c1225 discomfitc1230 win1297 dauntc1300 cumber1303 scomfit1303 fenkc1320 to bear downc1330 confoundc1330 confusec1330 to do, put arrear1330 oversetc1330 vanquishc1330 conquerc1374 overthrowc1375 oppressc1380 outfighta1382 to put downa1382 discomfortc1384 threshc1384 vencuea1400 depressc1400 venque?1402 ding?a1425 cumrayc1425 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430 distrussc1430 supprisec1440 ascomfita1450 to do stress?c1450 victorya1470 to make (win) a conquest1477 convanquish1483 conquest1485 defeat1485 oversailc1485 conques1488 discomfish1488 fulyie1488 distress1489 overpress1489 cravent1490 utter?1533 to give (a person) the overthrow1536 debel1542 convince1548 foil1548 out-war1548 profligate1548 proflige?c1550 expugnate1568 expugn1570 victor1576 dismay1596 damnify1598 triumph1605 convict1607 overman1609 thrash1609 beat1611 debellate1611 import1624 to cut to (or in) pieces1632 maitrise1636 worst1636 forcea1641 outfight1650 outgeneral1767 to cut up1803 smash1813 slosh1890 ream1918 hammer1948 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xiiij^v Hys armye should..profligate and expell all the intrudors and inuadours. 1617 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring Mischeefes Mysterie 15 So we our foes with horrour, greefe and ruth Shall profligate, supplant and quite confound. 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 117 If you..stay not till the victory be gotten, till your enemy be profligated and abased. 1664 Antipharmacum Saluberrimum 10 Pagan Idolatry, which the light of the Gospel hath long since profligated, and expelled out of these parts of the world. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. viii. 183 You have not yet profligated the Pope quite. 1724 R. Fiddes Life Cardinal Wolsey i. iv. 90 The towne..mightily fortified and by the enemy valiantly defended, by strength gotten and acquired and the said Enemys by their losse profligated. c. transitive. To ruin, destroy. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn to-warpc888 overwarpeOE fallOE cumber1303 overthrowc1375 overturna1382 subverta1382 overwalta1400 sinka1400 to wend downa1400 tuyrec1400 reverse1402 tirvec1420 pervert?a1425 to put downa1425 cumrayc1425 downthringc1430 overthwart?a1439 thringc1480 subvertise1484 succumb1490 renverse1521 precipitate?1528 everta1538 wrake1570 ruinate1590 profligate1643 wreck1749 1643 Characters Richelieu 13 Peace by Sea and Land proffligated. 1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 58 Many of the young and beautiful are profligated by slips,—slips so gradual that propriety could hardly call them such at first. d. transitive. To bring to an end. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1840 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 333 Dedicated to the glory of the exercitus maximus that profligated the German war in three months. †2. transitive (reflexive). To adopt a licentious, debauched lifestyle. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Profligate one's self, to give himself up to all manner of Vice, Lewdness and Debauchery. 3. transitive. To waste by reckless use or expenditure. Also occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)] forspendc893 scatter1154 dispend1303 waste1340 misspendc1390 miswastec1400 consumec1425 waste1474 profund1527 lasha1535 prodige1538 lavish1542 to play away1562 riot1566 embezzle1578 dilapidate1590 squander1593 confound1598 to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600 prodigalize1611 profuse1611 squander1611 paddle1616 bezzle1617 to run out of ——1622 to piss away1628 prodigal1628 decoct1629 to bangle (away)1632 debauch1632 deboise1632 to fribble away1633 to fool out1635 to run outa1640 to fiddle away1667 slattera1681 dissipate1682 to play off1693 duck-and-drake1700 liquidate1702 sparkle away1703 waster1821 befool1861 to frivol away1866 to play (at) duck and drake with1872 to fling away1873 mislive1887 slather1904 mucker1928 profligate1938 peter1956 spaff2002 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste spilla1000 scatter1154 aspilla1250 rospa1325 waste1340 spend1390 consumec1425 waste1474 miswenda1500 forsumea1510 to cast away1530 to throw away1561 embezzle1578 squander1593 palter1595 profuse1611 squander1611 ravel1614 sport1622 to fool away1628 to stream out1628 to fribble away1633 sweal1655 frisk1665 to fiddle away1667 wantonize1673 slattera1681 swattle1681 drivel1686 swatter1690 to muddle away1707 squander1717 sot1746 slattern1747 meisle1808 fritter1820 waster1821 slobber1837 to cut to waste1863 fringe1863 potter1883 putter1911 profligate1938 to piddle away1942 haemorrhage1978 spaff2002 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 122 His Profligating of the lands of his Bishoprick.] 1938 Times 14 June 13/1 We in this country were profligating. There was room for a savings movement in a wider sense. 1973 Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Reporter 11 Sept. 2/2 Warren likened the budget spending to profligating a new inheritance. 1977 Times 2 Mar. 17/5 Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money is profligated each year on trivia.., when it is needed for essentials. 1996 Western Rep. (Canada) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 6 For all the ink spilled and paper profligated recently.., the battle for Canada's future is as much economic as political. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1535v.1542
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