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Definition:1. [archaic] pleasure2. [archaic] to listen (to)
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He woulde suffer nothing of my list.
By God, he smote me ones with his fist,
For that I rent out of his book a leaf,
That of the stroke mine eare wax'd all deaf.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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Let my father use what speeches he list, I will follow mine own lust.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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FACE. List, sir.Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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If with too credent ear you list his songs
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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He speaks the words to Burbage, the young player who stands before him beyond the rack of cerecloth, calling him by a name:
Hamlet, I am thy father's spirit,
bidding him list.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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