desiderate

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

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

Let those who deny that Secular Truth meets the emotional part of their nature, settle what is the nature of the emotions they desiderate.

From The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake

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

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

We part at midnight, and Griff next day gets the desiderated appointment.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

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

A slight want of individual character may still be desiderated; it is hardly till Manon Lescaut that we get that, but it was not to be expected.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

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

He deliberated—the trade price of the Bible he offered me was about tenpence, that I desiderated would cost him half a guinea.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake

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

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