lust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: lusts
form: lusting
form: lusted
form: lusted
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form: lustest
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form: lustedst
form: lusts
form: lusteth
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Etymology: From Middle English lusten, from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: He then thought that all the sins which he had ever committed were personified, and that they all cried out against him. One cried out, I am thy lust, with which thou formerly lustedst unlawfully, and against the precepts of God: […]
ref: 1845, Samuel Fox, “Anglo[-]Saxon Monks. Theodore. A Monastic Vision. […]”, in Monks and Monasteries; Being an Account of English Monarchism (The Englishman’s Library; XXVIII), London: James Burns, […], page 36:
text: Quoth she, “What offence have I committed?” and quoth he, “What offence can be greater than this? Thou sentest after yonder youth and broughtest him hither, on account of the lust of thy heart, so thou mightest do with him that for which thou lustedst.” Said she, “I know not carnal desire. Verily, among thy pages are those who are comelier and seemlier than he; yet have I never desired one of them.”
ref: 1886, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Story of King Sulayman Shah and his Niece”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 149:
qualifier: usually in the phrase lust after
glosses: To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
examples: text: And I ſaye vnto you that helias ys come alredy / and they knewe hym nott: butt have done vnto him whatſoever they luſted.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xvij:[12], folio xxiiij, recto:
text: [I]t were more conſonant with reaſon, that a man were ſuffered to take to his Proctor ſuch as he luſteth, and may beſt truſt unto of his matier, than be driven to commit the order of his cauſe, being mefortune of great weight, to ſuch a one as he never knew, ne ſaw before. For whan a man is at his choiſe to chooſe him what Proctor he luſt beſt, if his matier do delay through the default of his Proctor, than, he can blame no body but himſelf.
ref: 1529, Thomas Cranmer, “Num. XVIII. Archbishop Cranmers order concerning the Proctors of the Court of Arches, shewn to be inconvenient, by a Paper presented to the Parlament, as followeth.”, in John Strype, editor, Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer, Sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. […], London: […] Richard Chiswell, […], published 1694, appendix, page 36:
text: I Luſt I haue an appetyte to a thyng / Iappette. prime cõiu. [first conjugation] There is no lyuyng creature that can haue all thynge he luſteth foꝛ: […] I Luſte oꝛ longe foꝛ a thyng as a woman wͭ chylde dothe / […]
ref: 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio cclxxxvi, recto, column 1; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
text: Wherof he that luſte to ſee examples, let hym ſearch theyꝛ lyues. […] If we be an hungred, we luſte foꝛ bꝛeade.
ref: 1563, The Seconde Tome of Homilies, […], folios 227, verso and 247, verso:
text: It auaileth not, to ſée them well taught in yong yeares, and after whã they cum to luſt and youthfull dayes, to giue them licence to liue as they luſt them ſelues.
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, “The First Booke for the Youth [Teachyng the Brynging vp of Youth]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC, folio 13, recto:
text: We paſſed from children and came to yonge men, namely, Ientlemen: we taulked of their to moch libertie, to liue as they luſt: […]
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, “A Præface to the Reader”, in Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], →OCLC, signature B.ij., verso:
text: But now there is ſuch a confuſe mingle mangle of apparell in Ailgna, and ſuch pꝛepoſterous exceſſe therof, as euery one is permitted to flaũt it out, in what apparell he luſt himſelfe, oꝛ can get by anie kind of meanes.
ref: 1583 May 11 (Gregorian calendar), Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discouerie, or Briefe Summarie of Such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as Now Raigne in Many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: […], London: […] Richard Iones, signature C.ij., verso:
text: The cuſtome in Babylon, as wel inward as outwardd, is in this maner: Small wares at 6 per 100, Coꝛal and amber at 5 and a halfe per 100, Venice cloth, Engliſh cloth, Kerſies, Mockairs, Chamblets, Silks, Veluets, Damaſks, Sattins ⁊ ſuch like at 5 per 100: ⁊ they rate the goods without reaſon as they luſt themſelues.
ref: 1584, Will[iam] Barret, “The money and meaſures of Babylon, Balsara, and the Indies, with the customes, &c. written from Aleppo in Syria, An. 1584. by M. Will. Barret. Babylon: The weight, measure, and money currant there, and the customes of merchandize.”, in Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, published 1599, →OCLC, page 271:
text: Of him alſo was made this. Here is Elderton lyeng in dust, / Or lyeng Elderton, choſe which you lust. / Here he lyes dead, […]
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], “Epitaphes”, in Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 56:
text: Foꝛ the fleſh luſteth againſt the Spirit, and the ſpirit againſt the fleſh: and theſe are contrary the one to the other: ſo that yee cannot doe the things that yee would.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 5:17, signature [S4], verso, column 1:
text: Euen ſo (if he doe not proportionate his helpes and corrections, (according to the diſpoſition of the horſe) in not giuing correction enough, hee will looſe a great glory in his actions, or elſe in not giuing him any, in letting him doe what hee luſt, hee will become ſo ſtubborne and idle, that his courage will bee (as it were) vtterly extinct, and hee will bee as ill as the former, doing that hee doeth without any grace.
ref: 1618, Michaell Baret, “Of the free Horse”, in An Hipponomie or The Vineyard of Horsemanship: […], London: […] George Eld, page 70:
text: O conſider this and pity thy ſelfe, acknowledging that whilſt thou haſt beene thus wilfull and inflexible, thou haſt by the violence of thy ſoules ſickneſſe, beene made franticke and out of thy wits, ſith, as neither with a mad man, none could hitherto preuaile with thee, but thou wouldeſt doe, what thou luſtedſt, and therefore now returne to thy right mind, […]
ref: 1629, Iohn Mayer, “Iames Chap. III.”, in Praxis Theologica: or, The Epistle of the Apostle Sᵗ Iames Resolved, Expounded, and Preached vpon by Way of Doctrine and Vse: […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Bostocke, […], page 255:
text: And though I am encompaſt with all the dangers I may juſtly feare from ſo barbarous a place, which dares doe any thing it luſts unto, without regard of lawes or hoſpitality, I’de tell you ſo, and were you from the Dung-hill that you ſtalke on (it is no better) I’de pull downe that unmanner’d pride within you.
ref: 1638, Henry Killigraew, The Conspiracy: A Tragedy, as It Was Intended, for the Nuptialls, of the Lord Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villers, London: […] Iohn Norton, for Andrew Crooke, signature G3, recto:
text: The Spirit and the fleſh are contraries, and they luſt contrary things, verſe 17.
ref: 1648 October, Robert Sanderson, A Sermon Preached at Newport in the Isle of Wight, October 1648. In the Time of the Treaty., London: […] T. M. for Andrew Crook, […], published 1653, page 4:
text: ALBEIT, gentle reader, I have luſted earneſtly, and endeavoured carefully (according to the meaſure of ſuch ſlender ſkill as God has vouchſafed me, and as convenient leiſure from other occaſions of needful profit and healthful paſtime have permitted) that theſe little books, which I here put into thy hands, might ſtand inſtead of many bigger books—yet have I carried myſelf towards thee in ſuch fanciful guiſe of careleſs diſport, […]
ref: 1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume IV, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, pages 142–143:
text: They had been seen from the British line as it advanced, ambling and scrambling over rise and dip, firing heavily, as they were ordered to, and then charging with the cold bayonet, as they lusted to.
ref: 1898, G[eorge] W[arrington] Steevens, “The Battle of the Atbara”, in With Kitchener to Khartum, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 150:
text: Under their feet were the gratings of the great ship’s beak; before them was the high plain wall of her lofty forecastle; and at its summit were the outraged Spaniards lusting for their destruction.
ref: 1898 June, C[harles] J[ohn] Cutcliffe Hyne, “Prince Rupert the Buccaneer”, in Lord Frederic Hamilton, editor, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume XV, number 62, London, section III (The Rape of the Spanish Pearls), page 221:
text: Soldier that never lustedst for glory! / Star in the Sun that paledst thy ray! / Not without awe thine immortal story / Trace we in page of a sacred Play.
ref: 1904, A[lexander] Gordon Mitchell, John the Baptist: A Drama, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, page [7]:
qualifier: for; to; formerly also reflexive; for; to; formerly also reflexive
glosses: To desire.
raw_tags: with after
Derived terms: lust after