desiderate
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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
The classical dress becomes so thin on such occasions, that even the small degree of illusion which one may fairly desiderate is too rudely interrupted.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
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 Eliot, Charles William
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 Hazlitt, W. Carew
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 Rogers, Charles
These, the constantly desiderated traits of a perfect universe, are in fact the limits of what adequacy environmental satisfactions can attain, ideas hypostatized, normative of existence, but not constituting it.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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
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 Saintsbury, George
Greatly was his return desiderated at this epoch.
From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton
Na�f as we may think Aristotle in desiderating for such actions a complicated rather than a simple plot, he obviously means that in form as well as in design they should reveal their relative importance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" 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
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 Stalker, James
That possibility, I need hardly say, is one that, as the actual world goes, we have ample grounds for desiderating.
From Pragmatism by James, William
