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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Lust \Lust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lusting}.] [AS. lystan. See {Lust}, n., and cf. List to choose.] 1. To list; to like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [bd] Do so if thou lust. [b8] --Latimer. Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal. In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. --Chaucer. 2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after. Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. --Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. --Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. --James iv. 5. | |
