Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or expressing desire.
- adjective Grammar Designating a clause, a sentence, or in some languages an inflected verb form that expresses desire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or implying desire; expressing or denoting desire: as, a desiderative verb.
- Pertaining to a desiderative verb.
- noun An object of desire; something desired.
- noun In grammar, a verb formed from another verb, and expressing a desire of doing the action implied in the primitive verb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Denoting desire.
- noun An object of desire.
- noun (Gram.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics A verbal
mood that has the meaning of “wanting to do something”, found in languages such asAncient Greek andSanskrit .
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Examples
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Meinong calls a genuine object of desire a desiderative and a desideratum [Desiderat], respectively.
Salvation Santa 2009
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Perception, unlike discursive thought or belief, is aligned not with the so-called rational part of the soul, but with the desiderative part.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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Hence choice is either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire, and such an origin of action is a man.
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002
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It is evident that Plato means the soul of the whole to be like the sort of soul which is called mind not like the sensitive or the desiderative soul, for the movements of neither of these are circular.
On the Soul 2002
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It is evident that Plato means the soul of the whole to be like the sort of soul which is called mind not like the sensitive or the desiderative soul, for the movements of neither of these are circular.
ON THE SOUL Aristotle 1935
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How to satisfy these desiderative actions is a problem for the understanding, whence it follows that successful satisfaction, intelligent or unintelligent, may vary in every possible degree.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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The word 'jijñâsâ' is a desiderative formation meaning 'desire to know.'
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Hence choice is either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire, and such an origin of action is a man.
The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865
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As the subjunctive used with imperative value, depends on some desiderative verb understood, the _que_ which would follow that verb is usually retained in Spanish (as in French), though not when _V. _ or _VV. _ is used.
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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The _optative_ is formed of the subjunctive, or of the two mixed-tenses of the indicative, by adding the desiderative particles _velem_, _uel_, or _chi_; as _eluli velem_!
hernesheir commented on the word desiderative
Compare desideratum, desiderata.
July 11, 2010