Lusted

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     Note: 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.
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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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