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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 95 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DESIRE , in popular usage, a See also:

TERM

term for a wishing or longing for something which one has not got. For its technical use see See also:

PSYCHOLOGY. The word is derived through the See also:

French from See also:

Lat. desiderare, to See also:

long or wish for, to See also:

MISS

miss. The substantive desiderium has the See also:

SPECIAL

special meaning of desire for something one has once possessed but lost, hence regret or grief. The usual explanation of the word is to connect it with sidus, See also:

STAR

star, as in considerare, to examine the stars with See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, hence, to look closely at. If this is so, the See also:

HISTORY

history of the transition in meaning is unknown. J. B. See also:

Greenough (Harvard Studies in Classical See also:

PHILOLOGY

Philology, i. 96) has suggested that the word is a military See also:

SLANG

slang term. According to this theory desiderare meant originally to miss a soldier from the ranks at See also:

roll-See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call, the See also:

root being that seen in sedere, to sit, seder, seat, See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, &c.

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