desiderate
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Let those who deny that Secular Truth meets the emotional part of their nature, settle what is the nature of the emotions they desiderate.
From The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake
That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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
We desiderate in all things the sharp decidedness of the verdict of a jury—Guilty or Not Guilty.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
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
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 William Minto
We must therefore, he would probably say, go on to admit the Whole System in the desiderated sense.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
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
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
For an oracle, of course, he would have looked in another direction; but he desiderated something more on a level with himself, and that they abundantly supplied.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
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
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
