desiderate
Americanverb (used with object)
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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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But what more comfort could a man desiderate than is given by the Holy Spirit?
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
Then, as the exciting sounds draw nearer and nearer, do I desiderate those eyes of Aristarchus, 'whose looks were as a breeching to a boy.'
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
Not being an American, the author may use novel words without the fear of being called provincial; so that understandable, evidentiary, desiderate, leisured, and inamoveability stalk at large within his pages.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
It was not a play of the sort desiderated by Mrs. Simeon—the sort to earn forty thousand pounds in royalties; nor, to speak accurately, had he written it.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
But now two things will chiefly be desiderated, which now we own in our testimony, for which many have died, that seem not to be confirmed by or consistent with the testimony of this period.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
He deliberated—the trade price of the Bible he offered me was about tenpence, that I desiderated would cost him half a guinea.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
Time and patience were alike necessary in order to the successful accomplishment of the end desiderated.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
Good swimming is by no means what is wanted; swimming of any kind, however poor, is all that is desiderated.
From The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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