Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
[H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!
Profligated: routed, overcome, driven away.
The Canon laws […] with their Author, are profligate out of this realm.
An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?
An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
To drive away; to overcome.
Such a stipulation would remove one powerful temptation to profligate pennyless seducers, of whom there are too many prowling in the higher circles ;
The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3)), from ...
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