desiderate

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Not jural but peaceable settlement of disputes is the motto of these men; they do not desiderate justice in the sense of existing law, but equity such as contents both parties.

From The Future of International Law by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)

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 Davidson, John

In fact, I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas

Then, as the exciting sounds draw nearer and nearer, do I desiderate those eyes of Aristarchus, 'whose looks were as a breeching to a boy.'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward