desiderate
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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
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
In fact, I do again desiderate some concretion of these beautiful abstracta.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
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
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
Here the situation is topsy-turvied in the most curious fashion, for it is the character of marriage that is desiderated in the absence thereof, and in a country where that character itself is scoffed at.
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
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
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
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
