desiderate
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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
Archimedes might desiderate a place to stand on before he could bring his lever into play; I would move the world, self-poised.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
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
We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
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
A slight want of individual character may still be desiderated; it is hardly till Manon Lescaut that we get that, but it was not to be expected.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
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
The desiderated text-book of the period 1798 to 1830 A.D. is no longer to seek.
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
We part at midnight, and Griff next day gets the desiderated appointment.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
He may realize them imaginatively, as when in color, form, or sound he creates some desiderated beauty out of the crude miscellaneous materials of experience.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
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 William James
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
