- Lusting
- 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. `` Do so if thou lust.
'' --Latimer.
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Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal. [1913 Webster]
In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. --Deut. xii. 15. [1913 Webster]
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. --Matt. v. 28. [1913 Webster]
The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. --James iv. 5. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
