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desiderate


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  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.