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Desiderate   Listen
verb
Desiderate  v. t.  (past & past part. desiderated; pres. part. desiderating)  To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. "Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not." "Men were beginning... to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire."






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"Desiderate" Quotes from Famous Books



... properties—the deep affinities and molecular arrangements—- are the mysteries rightly so called. Mind in itself is also intelligible; a pleasure is as intelligible as would be any transmutation of it into the inscrutable essence that people often desiderate. It is one of the facts of our sensibility, and has a great many facts of its own kindred, which makes it all the ...
— Practical Essays • Alexander Bain

... unsupported dicta such as these, ought to be apparent to all. It is useless to reason with a madman. We desiderate nothing so much as "searching enquiry," (p. 69,) but we are presented instead with something worse than random assertion. If the writer would state a single case, with its evidence,—we should know how to deal with him. ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon



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