lusting

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

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]
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