desiderate

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

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

And over London the desiderate city the sky is so deep a blue that by this alone the traveller may know where he has come, and may end his fortunate journey.

From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany

There are two or three points, Mr Gilbert, on which I should like to arrive at that understanding which you pretend to desiderate.

From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh

Pray, pray, don't think of answering this; it is merely to correct an unfavourable impression in one whose favourable opinion I much desiderate.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

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

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

The desiderated advertisement, I think I have told you, was mighty near supplied: that is, if deportation would suit your view: the ship was actually sought to be hired.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

The Board of Works supplied the long desiderated unity of administration.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

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

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