desiderate
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It seemed also, owing to its height, to desiderate wings, but there were none.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
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
Archimedes might desiderate a place to stand on before he could bring his lever into play; I would move the world, self-poised.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
Certainly, with such a central board in existence as that which we desiderate, no such type of schoolmaster would continue to hold office in a national seminary.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
But what more comfort could a man desiderate than is given by the Holy Spirit?
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
Greatly was his return desiderated at this epoch.
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
In proof of this, we need only state, that it is beyond all question that nothing could have disappointed Mrs. Callender more than the return of the desiderated jelly pot.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
Time and patience were alike necessary in order to the successful accomplishment of the end desiderated.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
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
This is a point of very considerable importance, as the object desiderated in a flying machine is elevating capacity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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
