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   Lewd (lūd), a. [Compar. Lewder (-ẽr); superl. Lewdest.] [OE. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. lǣwed laical, belonging to the laity.]
   1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.]
   
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   For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
   
   No wonder is a lewed man to rust. Chaucer.
   
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   So these great clerks their little wisdom show
   
   To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. Sir. J. Davies.
   
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   2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic]  Chaucer.
   
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   But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. Acts xvii. 5.
   
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   Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. Southey.
   
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   3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.  Dryden.
   
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   4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, “lewd thoughts, conduct, or language”.
   
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   Syn. -- Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched.
   
   -- Lewd"ly, adv. -- Lewd"ness, n.
   
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