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verb

Desire v. t. (past & past part. desired; pres. part. desiring)

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. "Neither shall any man desire thy land." "Ye desire your child to live."

To express a wish for; to entreat; to request. "Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?" "Desire him to go in; trouble him no more."

To require; to demand; to claim. (Obs.) "A doleful case desires a doleful song."

To miss; to regret. (Obs.) "She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies."

Synonyms: To long for; hanker after; covet; wish; ask; request; solicit; entreat; beg. To Desire, Wish. In desire the feeling is usually more eager than in wish. "I wish you to do this" is a milder form of command than "I desire you to do this," though the feeling prompting the injunction may be the same.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... for which yet you have cast me into many calamities, and yourself into many troubles: but I forgive you all, and pray God to do so likewise; for the rest, I commend unto you Mary our daughter, beseeching you to be a good father to her, as I have heretofore desired. I must intreat you also to respect my maids, and give them in marriage, which is not much, they being but three, and all my other servants a year's pay besides their due, lest otherwise they be unprovided ...

— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson

... birth of this third baby, her self no longer set towards him, helplessly, but was like a tide that scarcely rose, standing off from him. After this she scarcely desired him. And, standing more aloof from him, not feeling him so much part of herself, but merely part of her circumstances, she did not mind so much what he did, could leave ...

— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

... Quarter; she, too, no doubt, admired the destiny which had cast her out, ordaining that she should die amid tobacco smoke, serving drinks to students, entertaining them with whatever conversation they desired. ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... popular that it went on growing with the growth of centuries. Every generation of poets had something to add; every distant nation in Northern India was anxious to interpolate some account of its deeds in the old record of the international war; every preacher of a new creed desired to have in the old Epic some sanction for the new truths he inculcated. Passages from legal and moral codes were incorporated in the work which appealed to the nation much more effectively than dry codes; and rules about the different castes ...

— Maha-bharata - The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse • Anonymous

... joint. With the middle fingers on opposite lower corners of the cloth shape the back and top. Keep the index and middle fingers on the edge of the cloth and the edge of the cloth on the edge of the joint. This position together with the size and shape of the cloth will give the joint the desired form and appearance. Particular attention is called to the position of the fingers as shown in ...

— Elements of Plumbing • Samuel Dibble

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