lascious
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
lascious (comparative more lascious, superlative most lascious)
- (obsolete) loose or lustful
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:
- to depaint lascious wantonnesse
- 1648, Thomas Beard, The Theatre of Gods Judgements:
- ſo unchaſt and laſcious a woman, and withall barren (for they commonly goe together) that ſhe could never ſatiſfie her unſatiable luſt
References[edit]
- “lascious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.