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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Certainly, with such a central board in existence as that which we desiderate, no such type of schoolmaster would continue to hold office in a national seminary.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
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 Lowell, James Russell
He will desiderate greater variety of testimony,—the utmost variety which is attainable.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
In fact, I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
This is a point of very considerable importance, as the object desiderated in a flying machine is elevating capacity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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 Holyoake, George Jacob
It was food for the body they desiderated, not solace for the mind; and it was, perhaps, only natural that they should treat Mr. Lawrence's suggestions rather curtly.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton
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 Minto, William
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
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
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