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