desiderate
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Their contemplation will still desiderate something beyond all finite being, actual or possible.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
Unity is the common desiderate of philosophic systems of all metaphysical types—neutral, materialistic, idealistic.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
We desiderate means of instruction which involve no interruption of our ordinary habits; nor need we seek it long, for the natural course of things brings it about, while we debate over it.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot
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
Truly, your reverence, I dinna ken," replied Mrs. Weymss, beginning to bustle about the apartment in search of the desiderated articles; "but they canna be far aff, surely.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
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 Andrew Lang
Here the situation is topsy-turvied in the most curious fashion, for it is the character of marriage that is desiderated in the absence thereof, and in a country where that character itself is scoffed at.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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
