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desirous, a.|dɪˈzaɪərəs|
Also 5 desirouse, -rose, desyrows, dessyrous, -rus, dissyrus, dyssirus, 5–6 desyrous(e, 6 desyreous, -rus, -rowus, desierous, dissirous, 7 desireous.
[a. AFr. desirous = OF. desireus (earlier desidros, desirrus, mod.F. désireux) = Pr. deziros, It. desideroso:—late L. or Rom. dēsīderōs-us, f. stem of dēsīder-āre to desire: see -ous. Orig. with stress on third and first syllable.]
1. Having desire or longing; characterized by or full of desire: wishful; desiring.
a. with of; also † to (obs. rare).
c1300K. Alis. 416 Olimpias stont byfore Neptanabus, Of hire neowe love wel desirous. c1400Destr. Troy 8003 More dessyrous to the dede, þen I dem can. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. iii. i. 169 A dyscyple desyrouse of lernynge. 1508Dunbar Goldyn Targe 54 As falcounn swift desyrouse of hir pray. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 221 They that haue a desirous mind of amendment. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. 4 The Grecians being desirous of learning. 1755Young Centaur i. Wks. 1757 IV. 125 Man is not only desirous, but ambitious too, of happiness. 1891Law Reports Weekly Notes 78/2 The lessor was desirous of pulling the house down and building a new one.
b. with inf.
c1374Chaucer Former Age 59 Ne nembrot desyrous To regne had nat maad his towres hye. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn vii. 29 Ryght desyrouse to here tydynges of her louer. 1555Eden Decades 158 Owre men..were desyrous to see the towne. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xlv. 360 He is desirous to save himselfe from death. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 207 ⁋9 We never find ourselves so desirous to finish, as in the latter part of our work. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 66 Being desirous to learn something of its [the glacier's] general features.
c. with obj. clause.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. i. 83 My Neece is desirous you should enter. 1625Bacon Ess., Revenge (Arb.) 503 Some..are Desirous the party should know. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 18 That I, desirous we might recover againe our liberty. 1828Scott F.M. Perth iii, He averted his face, as if desirous that his emotion should not be read upon his countenance.
d. simply.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1110 To shew desyrows hartes I am full nere. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xxiii. 15 Dauid was desyrous, and sayde: Wolde God yt some man wolde fetch me a drynke of water. 1667Milton P.L. v. 631 From dance to sweet repast they turn Desirous.
†2. Of feelings, actions, etc.: Characterized by, of the nature of, or expressing, desire or longing; sometimes in bad sense, covetous. Obs.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1403 The desirous talent Ye han to goode. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 272/2 Thou hast brought me into a desyrous affection. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 178 Alas note well thy desirous vanitie. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 166 With a desirous sigh. 1652L. S. People's Liberty ii. 4 The word for desire..implieth a desirous affection.
†3. Full of eagerness or spirit; eager, ardent (esp. in deeds of arms). Obs.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 15 Yong, fressh, strong, and in Armes desirous, As any Bacheler of al his hous. 1393Gower Conf. I. 89 Of armes he was desirous, Chivalerous and amorous. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xii, Þat þou be not a louer of þiself, but a desirous folower of my wille. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 2 In prys of armys desirous and sauage. 1470–85Malory Arthur iv. iii, A good knyght and ful desyrous in armes. [Modernized reprint of 1634 desirous.]
†4. Longing for something lost; regretful. Obs. rare. (Cf. desire n. 3, v. 4.)
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1077 My swete lorde of þe which desirose I am, and nedes must be.
†5. Exciting desire; desirable; pleasant, delectable. Obs.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. viii, The lusty season freshe and desyrous. 1556in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxi. 219 Whiche most desirous daye of thy comfortable commynge hasten, deare Lorde. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 96 They make the Woods, and Groves, and Solitary places, places desirous to be in. 1728Gay Begg. Op. ii. i, Wine inspires us, And fires us..Women and Wine should Life employ. Is there ought else on Earth desirous? [1796cf. Pegge Anonym. (1809) 434.] |