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   Lust (?), n. [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS., D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose.  Cf. List to please, Listless.]
   1. Pleasure. [Obs.] “ Lust and jollity.”  Chaucer.
   
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   2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]
   
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   For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser.
   
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   My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall.
   
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   3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, “the lust of gain”.
   
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   The lust of reigning.  Milton.
   
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   4. Licentious craving; a strong sexual appetite.  Milton.
   
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   5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.]  Bacon.
   
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   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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   ☞ In earlier usage lust was impersonal.
   
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   In the water vessel he it cast
   
   When that him luste. Chaucer.
   
   
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   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.
   
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   Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Deut. xii. 15.
   
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   Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28.
   
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   The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. James iv. 5.
   
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