desiderate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of desiderate
1635–45; < Latin dēsīderātus (past participle of dēsīderāre to long for, require), equivalent to dē- de- + sīder- (stem of sīdus ) heavenly body, constellation + -ātus -ate 1
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He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Edward Miller
Both desiderate a world which is not now, musing with fierce bitterness or cold resignation upon that which was once but is no longer.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
Discoverers should bear a little with beginners; and we suggest that, in a second edition, a full table should be given of what we desiderate.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
Swinburne's first drafts offer none of the attractions which collectors of autographs commonly desiderate.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
They are of that class desiderated by Dr. Arnold—“I never wanted articles on religious subjects half so much as articles on common subjects, written with a decidedly religious turn.”
From History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond) Summers
These, the constantly desiderated traits of a perfect universe, are in fact the limits of what adequacy environmental satisfactions can attain, ideas hypostatized, normative of existence, but not constituting it.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Thus it became the custom to refer to them as the Predicables, a means of reference to them collectively being desiderated, while the meaning of this descriptive title was forgotten.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
In proof of this, we need only state, that it is beyond all question that nothing could have disappointed Mrs. Callender more than the return of the desiderated jelly pot.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
In every other problem the solution of the problem is the end desiderated: the means are the thinking requisite for its solution.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Perhaps that which we are desiderating could not be better expressed than by saying that we need a ministry prophetic and apostolic.
From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker
That possibility, I need hardly say, is one that, as the actual world goes, we have ample grounds for desiderating.
From Pragmatism by William James
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