desiderate

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

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

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 Thomas Carlyle

Both desiderate a world which is not now, musing with fierce bitterness or cold resignation upon that which was once but is no longer.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb

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

In ten minutes she was dressed, and, in one more was on her way to Glasgow to make the desiderated purchase.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

They are of that class desiderated by Dr. Arnold—“I never wanted articles on religious subjects half so much as articles on common subjects, written with a decidedly religious turn.”

From History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond) Summers

Obedient to the command, Rosy tripped out of the kitchen, and in an instant returned with the desiderated commodity—a dumpy, bluff, opaque bottle, of about a gallon contents—which she placed on the table.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson

Shall we ever have it? or will the irrational conservatism of the educated classes, in all time to come, prevent a consummation so desirable, and so desiderated by the philologist?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

In our problem the desiderated solution is the means, the end is the development, or, we should rather say, the creation of speculative thought—a kind of thought different altogether from ordinary popular thinking.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 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 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