desiderate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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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And therefore," he continued, "in the desiderate city, in London, all their camels are pure white.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
Upon my faith, sir," said Campbell, "I cannot render you the service you seem to desiderate.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
One can only query whether poetry has anything to do with “modern development,” and desiderate the addition to “sentiment” of “art.”
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
And these schools of the people that extension of the educational franchise which we desiderate would not fail to restore to the people.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
Pray, pray, don't think of answering this; it is merely to correct an unfavourable impression in one whose favourable opinion I much desiderate.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
The Board of Works supplied the long desiderated unity of administration.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
They did precisely what sceptical writers in recent years have desiderated; they instituted a jealous examination of the affair.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
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
On reading my pamphlet in manuscript, however, Dr. Candlish at once concluded that the desiderated want was to be supplied by its writer.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
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
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
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
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