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<h1>Desiderate</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sid"er*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Desiderated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Desiderating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>desideratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>desiderare</ets> to desire, miss. See <er>Desire</er>, and cf. <er>Desideratum</er>.]</ety> <def>To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.</def>

<blockquote>Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a <b>desiderated</b> stanza. You can not. <i>Prof. Wilson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Men were beginning . . . to <b>desiderate</b> for them an actual abode of fire. <i>A. W. Ward.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Desideration</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sid`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>desideratio</ets>.]</ety> <def>Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Jeffrey.</i>

<h1>Desiderative</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sid"er*a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>desiderativus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Denoting desire; <as>as, <ex>desiderative</ex> verbs</as>.</def>

<h1>Desiderative</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sid"er*a*tive</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An object of desire.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.</def>

<h1>Desideratum</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sid`e*ra"tum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Desiderata</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., fr. <ets>desideratus</ets>, p. p. See <er>Desiderate</er>.]</ety> <def>Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.</def>

<h1>Desidiose, Desidious</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw><hw>De*sid"i*ose`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>De*sid"i*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>desidiosus</ets>, fr. <ets>desidia</ets> a sitting idle, fr. <ets>desid<?/re</ets> to sit idle; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>sed<?/re</ets> to sit.]</ety> <def>Idle; lazy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Desidiousness</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sid"i*ous*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>N. Bacon.</i>

<h1>Desight</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sight"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>sight</ets>.]</ety> <def>An unsightly object.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Desightment</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sight"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>To substitute jury masts at whatever <b>desightment</b> or damage in risk. <i>London Times.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Design</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sign"</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Designed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Designing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82signer</ets> to designate, cf. F. <ets>dessiner</ets> to draw, <ets>dessin</ets> drawing, <ets>dessein</ets> a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. <ets>designare</ets> to designate; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>signare</ets> to mark, mark out, <ets>signum</ets> mark, sign. See <er>Sign</er>, and cf. <er>Design</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, <er>Designate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.</def>