1. Having a strong or excessive desire (for something); eagerly or inordinately desirous of or to do (something). Obs. or arch.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., III. ii. § 1. Gif his hwa sie lustfull mare to witanne, sece him þonne self þæt.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus’ Ann., V. i. (1622), 117. Augustus rauished with her beauty … tooke her from her husband, shewing himselfe so lustfull of her, that [etc.].
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 277. They have so lustful a greedinesse to Mans-flesh, that [etc.].
1901. Daily Chron., 29 June, 3/1. Lustful of inflicting and witnessing pain.
† 2. Delightful, pleasurable. Obs.
1340. Ayenb., 80. Me can todele þri manere guodes, guod worþssiplich, guod lostuol, and guod uremuol. Ibid., 91, 92.
1394. P. Pl. Crede, 605. Whereto beggen þise men … But for a lustfull lijf in lustes to dwellen?
3. Vigorous, lusty, arch.
1561. Norton & Sackv., Gorboduc, III. i. (1847), 127. This want of lustfull health.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Jan. 37. My lustfull leafe is drye and sere.
1621. Quarles, Esther (1638), 95. In depth of silence there was heard the loud And lustfull language of Darius Horse.
1858. Bushnell, Serm. New Life, ii. (1869), 19. The first men are shewn as living out a thousand years of lustful energy.
1882. J. H. Brown, Rambler’s Cal., 16. Neck to neck, The lustful darlings [greyhounds] race the ridgy earth.
4. Full of, imbued with, or characterized by, lust or unlawful desires; pertaining to, marked by, or manifesting sensual desire; libidinous.
1579. E. K., Gloss. to Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., March, 97. By wounding in the hele, is ment lustfull loue.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., Ind. ii. 40. Wee’l haue thee to a Couch, Softer and sweeter then the lustfull bed On purpose trim’d vp for Semiramis.
1653. Walton, Angler, i. 22. There are also lustful and chaste fishes, of which I shall also give you examples.
1667. Milton, P. L., XI. 619. Bred … to the taste Of lustful appetence.
1727. De Foe, Syst. Magic, I. iv. (1840), 111. Injecting lustful or loose and wandering thoughts into her chaste Mind.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 143. Libidinous themes will awake foul desires, And, banishing decency, light lustful fires.
1902. A. M. Fairbairn, Philos. Chr. Relig., I. iv. 167. The miseries that follow a lustful will.
† 5. Provocative of lust. Obs.
1610. Fletcher, Faithf. Shepherdess, II. ii. (1629), C 4 b. Therefore foule standergrasse, from me and mine I banish thee, with lustfull Turpentine.
a. 1667. Cowley, Verses & Ess., Agric., Hor. Epod., ii. (1687), 108. Not all the lustful Shell-fish of the Sea, Dress’d by the wanton Hand of Luxury [etc.].
