Joon was a lewde fischere and untaught in scolys.—Purvey, Preface to Epistles of St. Jerome, p. 65.
Neither was it Christ’s intention that there should be any thing in it [the Lord’s Prayer] dark or far from our capacity, specially since it belongeth equally to all, and is as necessary for the lewd as the learned.—A Short Catechism, 1553.
This is servitude,
To serve the unwise, or him who hath rebelled
Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee,
Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled,
Yet lewdly darest our ministering upbraid.
Milton, Paradise Lost, vi. 178.
If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness [ῥᾳδιούργημα], O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you.—Acts xviii. 14. (A.V.)
Liberal. Often used by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as free of tongue, licentious or wanton in speech.