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Definitions are overrated.  How do you define "dog" or "cat"?  Nouns are used to classify things and "liberal" is a classification as is "dog" and "cat".  Nouns are better described than defined.  You can read my description of liberalism here.

Yes liberalism caused the decline of the Roman and British empires.  I am not familiar enough with the decline of the Ottoman empire to comment on that.

I suppose "evolutionary decay" could be defined/described in 2 ways.  One is a decline in what are traditionally considered virtues, things like intelligence, integrity, etc.  A more precise definition would be a decline in traits needed for survival which, in the case of humans, particularly refers to traits needed to win wars.  I believe these 2 definitions are basically the same since traditional virtues are traits that are valuable in war.

The mechanisms for both cultural and evolutionary decay are described here.