desiderate

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Mind in itself is also intelligible; a pleasure is as intelligible as would be any transmutation of it into the inscrutable essence that people often desiderate.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander

Their contemplation will still desiderate something beyond all finite being, actual or possible.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

But what more comfort could a man desiderate than is given by the Holy Spirit?

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

Not being an American, the author may use novel words without the fear of being called provincial; so that understandable, evidentiary, desiderate, leisured, and inamoveability stalk at large within his pages.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various