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▪ I. † deˈsiderate, a. and n. Obs.
[ad. L. dēsīderāt-us desired: see next.]
A. adj. Desired; desirable.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. iv. ii. 199 So these are the Parts which in the knowledge of Medicine, touching the cure of Diseases, are desiderate.
B. n. A thing that is desired; a desideratum.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. Pref. 23 Where we deliver up any thing as a Desiderate. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 558 Those who shall once oblige our nation with a full and Absolutely Compleat Dictionary, as yet a Desiderate amongst us. 1670― Mem. (1857) III. 223 When I shall have received those other desiderates, I may proceed to the compiling part.
▪ II. desiderate, v.|dɪˈsɪdəreɪt|
[f. L. dēsīderāt-, ppl. stem of dēsīderāre to miss, long for, desire, f. dē- (de- I. 1, 2) + a radical also found in con-sīderāre, perhaps connected with sīdus, sīder- star, constellation; but the sense-history is unknown: cf. consider.]
trans. To desire with a sense of want or regret; to feel a desire or longing for; to feel the want of; to desire, want, miss.
1645R. Baillie Disswasive Vind. (1655) 29 In that pastorall freedome I desiderate these three things. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. Pref. A vj a, If any way..wee may obtaine a worke, so much desired, at least, desiderated of truth. 1730T. Boston Mem. App. xii. 453, I desiderated satisfying impressions. 1788Gibbon Let. Misc. Wks. 1796 I. 679 In an evening I desiderate the resources of a family or a club. 1829Southey in Q. Rev. XXXIX. 123 The great step which is now desiderated in education. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxix. (1870) II. 384 He evacuates the phænomenon of all that desiderates explanation. 1839John Bull 11 Aug., We desiderate to know whether murder itself be considered one [an offence]. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xxvii. 321 Incapable of enjoying the kind of life which he desiderated. |