desiderate

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

Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

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 James Russell Lowell

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

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 Sir Leslie Stephen

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 Boyd H. Bode

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

This content makes it a designation for the persistence and perdurability of desiderated quality—from metaphysical unity and spirituality to the happy hunting-grounds or a woman's428 affection.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

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

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

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

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