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Definition of Desiderated
1. desiderate [v] - See also: desiderate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiderated
Literary usage of Desiderated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1893)
"What the Synoptic problem has long desiderated is facts : theories swarm; every
possible theory has found advocates; we need one or two facts as stepping ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1879)
"... of iron spray in diphtheria, it exerts an immediate and never failing beneficial
influence much desiderated in many cases—an arrest of putrefaction. ..."
3. A History of Edinburgh from the Earliest Period to the Completion of the by John Anderson, of Edinburgh John Anderson (1856)
"... and what was now desiderated was a large new wing to be occupied bv pauper
lunatics, where the gentle, soothing, and kind system of treatment should be ..."
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