debauchee
(dɛbɒˈʃiː)
Also 7 deboichee, 8 deboshee; also debauché(e.
[a. F. débauché debauched (person), n. use of pa. pple. of débaucher to debauch. In 17th and 18th c. also deboichee, deboshee: cf. deboise, deboshed.]
One who is addicted to vicious indulgence in sensual pleasures.
| a 1661 B. Holyday Juvenal 81 Cicero, describing the debauchées [printed -oes] of his time, says they were vino languidi. 1665 Pepys Diary 23 July, If he knew his son to be a debauchee (as many and most are now-a-dayes about the Court). 1677 B. Riveley Fun. Serm. Bp. of Norwich 14 A great Deboichee. 1741 tr. D'Argens' Chinese Lett. xxxiii, Perhaps if the People could be Deboshees and Gluttons with Impunity, they would not be more sober there than in Europe. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 174 ¶9, I never betrayed an heir to gamesters, or a girl to debauchees. 1882 Farrar Early Chr. I. 67 No man is more systematically heartless than a corrupted debauchee. |
b. attrib.
| 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 262 A debauchee physician. 1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 305 A debauchee peer. |