desiderate
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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
Their contemplation will still desiderate something beyond all finite being, actual or possible.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate town even of all Earth's cities.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
And therefore," he continued, "in the desiderate city, in London, all their camels are pure white.
From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
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
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
Good swimming is by no means what is wanted; swimming of any kind, however poor, is all that is desiderated.
From The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
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
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
Desiderā′tion, the act of desiderating: the thing desiderated.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 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
