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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  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. 




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