Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Desiderate"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Desiderate \De*sid"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Desiderated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Desiderating}.] [L. desideratus, p. p. of
desiderare to desire, miss. See {Desire}, and cf.
{Desideratum}.]
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. --Prof.
Wilson.

Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an
actual abode of fire. --A. W. Ward.


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