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desiderate |
1 definition found 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.