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Lusted

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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lusted

vb. (en-past of: lust)

Usage examples of "lusted".

Well, some in CIA thought that China lusted after the mineral riches in eastern Siberia--- this was suggested by intercepts and other access to the electronic mail of the Japanese industrialists who'd twisted their nation's path into a not-quite-open clash with America.

Well, some in CIA thought that China lusted after the mineral riches in eastern Siberia -- this was suggested by intercepts and other access to the electronic mail of the Japanese industrialists who'd twisted their nation's path into a not-quite-open clash with America.

For all its illusory wealth, Veracruz remained a pestilential sinkhole of sand, jungle heat, and el norte storms, whose incoming treasure had to be hidden from the marauding hordes of French and English pirates who lusted after her bounty as some men lust after a woman's flesh.

Those glittering jewels, gilt carriages, fine silks, and splendid palaces that the gachupins so greedily lusted after, to say nothing of the Crown's foreign wars, were paid for in slave blood.

When his honor and human dignity were violated by the comendador who lusted for his wife, Peribanez avenged himself upon the powerful aristocrat.

Mateo claimed that I was like Don Julio in that I lusted for knowledge more than women, and there was much truth in his accusation.

I wonder how the pope would receive you if he knew you lusted for the flesh of women?

He was a vile man, a snake in man's skin and a man who lusted for Brutus.

Aerne and Loth blamed the pitiful Blangan for the catastrophic event—they still lusted for her blood—but Blangan had simply been a means, a vessel to be used.

And she said, 'Do you recall the time I told you how I'd lusted after you?

He had never lusted after older women in the past, and yet he did not think he would find the bedding of her as distasteful as he had originally thought.

Who would have ever believed it possible that The Raven, infamous for his woman-luck, lusted after his own true wife?

He'd even spent time with the Americans at their battle laboratory in California, some­thing he lusted to copy and recreate in Russia as the best possible way to prepare soldiers for battle, but which his country couldn't begin to af­ford for years.

He'd even spent time with the Americans at their battle laboratory in California, something he lusted to copy and re-create in Russia as the best possible way to prepare soldiers for battle, but which his country couldn't begin to afford for years.

That fleshy body that was so soft and womanly, so inviting to be lusted after and thrust into.