desiderate
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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
Their contemplation will still desiderate something beyond all finite being, actual or possible.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
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
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 John Davidson
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
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
In proof of this, we need only state, that it is beyond all question that nothing could have disappointed Mrs. Callender more than the return of the desiderated jelly pot.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
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
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
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
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
