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Webster 1913 Edition


Desiderate

De-sid′er-ate

,
Verb.
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 1828 Edition


Desiderate

DESIDERATE

,
Verb.
T.
[from the L.] To want; to miss.

Definition 2024


desiderate

desiderate

English

Verb

desiderate (third-person singular simple present desiderates, present participle desiderating, simple past and past participle desiderated)

  1. 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.

Italian

Verb

desiderate f pl

  1. feminine plural of desiderato

Adjective

desiderate f pl

  1. feminine plural of desiderato

Verb

desiderate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of desiderare
  2. second-person plural present subjunctive of desiderare
  3. second-person plural imperative of desiderare

Anagrams


Latin

Verb

dēsīderāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēsīderō

Participle

dēsīderāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of dēsīderātus

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