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Definition of Desiderates
1. desiderate [v] - See also: desiderate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiderates
Literary usage of Desiderates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"... and collection of materials, that when I shall have re- ceiv'd those other
desiderates, I may proceede to the compiling part, and of knitting together ..."
2. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1836)
"... than the insurmountable difficulties which still retain trisection of an angle,
and quadrature of the circle, among the desiderates of science, ..."
3. William James and Henri Bergson: A Study in Contrasting Theories of Life by Horace Meyer Kallen (1914)
"Transcendentalism itself goes, however, the way of traditional metaphysics,
substituting in the ancient way desiderates for data, ideals for facts. ..."
4. Defences to Crime: The Adjudged Cases on Defences to Crime by John Davison Lawson (1885)
"... her physical as well as mental powers are put In abeyance, the law desiderates
no more physical force than is necessary to accomplish the criminal act. ..."
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