Definition of Desidirate
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- to miss, to feel the absence of, to long for
*1922: it put him in thought of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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