desiderate
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Mind in itself is also intelligible; a pleasure is as intelligible as would be any transmutation of it into the inscrutable essence that people often desiderate.
From Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
Not being an American, the author may use novel words without the fear of being called provincial; so that understandable, evidentiary, desiderate, leisured, and inamoveability stalk at large within his pages.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
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
There are two or three points, Mr Gilbert, on which I should like to arrive at that understanding which you pretend to desiderate.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh
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
For an oracle, of course, he would have looked in another direction; but he desiderated something more on a level with himself, and that they abundantly supplied.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
But now two things will chiefly be desiderated, which now we own in our testimony, for which many have died, that seem not to be confirmed by or consistent with the testimony of this period.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
It was not a play of the sort desiderated by Mrs. Simeon—the sort to earn forty thousand pounds in royalties; nor, to speak accurately, had he written it.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
Time and patience were alike necessary in order to the successful accomplishment of the end desiderated.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
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
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
