abbreviation for ‘pounds, shillings, and pence’ (see the letters L, S, D); hence often used = ‘money.’ Hence L. S. Deism (humorous), worship of money.
1835. Hood, Dead Robbery, i. But p’rhaps, of all the felonies de se,… Two-thirds have been through want of L. S. d.!
1880. Mrs. Lynn Linton, Rebel of Family, ii. For his own part he preferred £. S. D.
1892. Cornh. Mag., Aug., 170. L. S. Deism … the modern worship.
