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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Desiderated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Desiderating

[L.

desideratus

, p. p. of

desiderare

to desire, miss. See

, and cf.

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.

Verb.

[from the L.] To want; to miss.