desiderate
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The only thing we desiderate in it is more of his welcome marks and names, B. M., Britwell, Lambeth, &c., to show where all the books approaching rarity are.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
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
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
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
The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
It was food for the body they desiderated, not solace for the mind; and it was, perhaps, only natural that they should treat Mr. Lawrence's suggestions rather curtly.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
The encouragement desiderated at home, the poet, however, experienced elsewhere.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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
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 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
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
