资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.