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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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 Miller, Edward
And over London the desiderate city the sky is so deep a blue that by this alone the traveller may know where he has come, and may end his fortunate journey.
From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
We desiderate in all things the sharp decidedness of the verdict of a jury—Guilty or Not Guilty.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
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 Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)
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 Bode, Boyd H.
Beginning as a correction of the evils of existence, religion ends by offering an infallible avenue of escape from them through postulating a desiderated type of existence which operates to gather the spirit to itself.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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 Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond)
The desiderated advertisement, I think I have told you, was mighty near supplied: that is, if deportation would suit your view: the ship was actually sought to be hired.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew
Shall we ever have it? or will the irrational conservatism of the educated classes, in all time to come, prevent a consummation so desirable, and so desiderated by the philologist?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 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 Stalker, James
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
That possibility, I need hardly say, is one that, as the actual world goes, we have ample grounds for desiderating.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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