I.unworthy of a freeman, ignoble, ungenerous, sordid, mean, disobliging (class.; “mostly of things): illiberales et sordidi quaestus mercenariorum omnium, quorum operae, non quorum artes emuntur,” Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150: “labor,” id. Fin. 1, 1, 3: “facinus,” Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 3: “duplex omnino est jocandi genus, unum illiberale, petulans, flagitiosum, obscenum: alterum elegans, urbanum, ingeniosum, facetum,” Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104: “res ad cognoscendum non illiberalis,” id. de Or. 1, 32, 146: “mens,” Quint. 1, 3, 14: “cibus (raphanus),” Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 79: “servom haud illiberalem praebes te,” Ter. And. 5, 5, 5: “non te in me illiberalem putabit,” disobliging, Cic. Fam. 13, 1, 5.—
II. Niggardly, grasping: “paulatim illiberali adiectione ad centum talenta perductus,” Liv. 38, 14, 14. —Adv.: illībĕrālĭter , ignobly, ungenerously, meanly: “factum a vobis (with duriter immisericorditerque),” Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 30: “me audiatis ut unum e togatis, patris diligentia non illiberaliter institutum,” Cic. Rep. 1, 22; id. Att. 16, 3, 2: “aliquid aestimare valde illiberaliter,” i. e. meanly, stingily, id. ib. 4, 2, 5.
