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Webster 1913 Edition
Desiderate
De-sid′er-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Desiderated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Desiderating
.] 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 1828 Edition
Desiderate
DESIDERATE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
desiderate
desiderate
English
Verb
desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)
- To miss, to feel the absence of, to long for.
- William Hurrell Mallock
- Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- it put him in thought of that missing link of creation’s chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.
- William Hurrell Mallock
Italian
Verb
desiderate f pl
- feminine plural of desiderato
Adjective
desiderate f pl
- feminine plural of desiderato
Verb
desiderate
- second-person plural present indicative of desiderare
- second-person plural present subjunctive of desiderare
- second-person plural imperative of desiderare
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
dēsīderāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of dēsīderō
Participle
dēsīderāte
- vocative masculine singular of dēsīderātus
References
- DESIDERATE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)