desiderate
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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
That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Swinburne's first drafts offer none of the attractions which collectors of autographs commonly desiderate.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
Upon my faith, sir," said Campbell, "I cannot render you the service you seem to desiderate.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
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
It was food for the body they desiderated, not solace for the mind; and it was, perhaps, only natural that they should treat Mr. Lawrence's suggestions rather curtly.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
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
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
The desiderated text-book of the period 1798 to 1830 A.D. is no longer to seek.
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
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
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
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
