Definitions for desiderate

desiderate de·sid·er·ate

Spelling: [dih-sid-uh-reyt]
IPA: /dɪˈsɪd əˌreɪt/

Desiderate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 485 anagrams from letters in desiderate (addeeeirst).

Definitions for desiderate

verb (used with object)

  1. to wish or long for.

Origin of desiderate

1635-45; Latin dēsīderātus (past participle of dēsīderāre to long for, require), equivalent to dē- de- + sīder- (stem of sīdus) heavenly body, constellation + -ātus

Examples for desiderate

We (they observe) need not deny a designer of the world, but we desiderate evidence of his actual workmanship.

That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.

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

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?

Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness.

Some may desiderate longer notices of German theories concerning the origin and character of the Acts.

We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.

We desiderate such periods of relaxation and repose in Macaulay.

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