desiderate

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

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

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 Charles William Eliot

And over London the desiderate city the sky is so deep a blue that by this alone the traveller may know where he has come, and may end his fortunate journey.

From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany

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

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

They did precisely what sceptical writers in recent years have desiderated; they instituted a jealous examination of the affair.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

In every other problem the solution of the problem is the end desiderated: the means are the thinking requisite for its solution.

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

A slight want of individual character may still be desiderated; it is hardly till Manon Lescaut that we get that, but it was not to be expected.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

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

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