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Definition of Desiderate
1. v. t. To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
Definition of Desiderate
1. Verb. To miss, to feel the absence of, to long for. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desiderate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiderate
Literary usage of Desiderate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1915)
"... atque additis, nihil amplius animus veritate sincere deditus desiderate possit."
This is properly paradox, though also heterodox. ..."
2. The Jewish and the Christian Messiah: A Study in the Earliest History of by Vincent Henry Stanton (1886)
"We desiderate the evidence of writings which may with probability be assigned to
a date prior to the rise of Christianity, but not so long before that they ..."
3. The British and Foreign Medical Review Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1837)
"... the persons to be commemorated, who are dissatisfied to have merely to boast
of a genius in the family, and always desiderate a fair genealogical tree. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"3. Forego, pass by, leave out, go without, omit, dispense with. 2. Lose, fail of
finding. 4. Keel the want of, feel the loss of, require, want, desiderate. ..."
5. A Handbook to the Gallery of British Paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition by Manchester art treasures exhib (1857)
"But we desiderate honest truth sadly, in these conventional agglomerations of
unnatural large eyes, immaterially clear complexions, and unnaturally rosy ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Language of Mota, Sugarloaf Island, Banks' Islands, with by Robert Henry Codrington, John Palmer (1896)
"Arike, admire, covet, desiderate, repine as when another succeeds, or when one
has missed a shot ; with ape prep. Ari, to cut with sideways strokes in ..."
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