desiderate
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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
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
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
We desiderate in all things the sharp decidedness of the verdict of a jury—Guilty or Not Guilty.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
Not jural but peaceable settlement of disputes is the motto of these men; they do not desiderate justice in the sense of existing law, but equity such as contents both parties.
From The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
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
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
We must therefore, he would probably say, go on to admit the Whole System in the desiderated sense.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
On reading my pamphlet in manuscript, however, Dr. Candlish at once concluded that the desiderated want was to be supplied by its writer.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
He may realize them imaginatively, as when in color, form, or sound he creates some desiderated beauty out of the crude miscellaneous materials of experience.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
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
