Crossword-Solution: DESIDERATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desiderative | a. | Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs. |
| Desiderative | n. | An object of desire. |
| Desiderative | n. | 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. |
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| CONJUGATION | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEAZM
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eruption
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Sentences with DESIDERATIVE (5)
All day long he was marching and countermarching his favorite brigades of verbs--verbs frequentative, verbs inceptive, verbs desiderative--horse, foot, and artillery; changing front, advancing from the rear, throwing out skirmishing parties, until Kate, not given to faint, must have thought of such a resource, as once in her life she had thought so seasonably of a vesper headache.
The word 'jijńâsâ' is a desiderative formation meaning 'desire to know.' And as in the case of any desire the desired object is the chief thing, the Sűtra means to enjoin knowledge--which is the object of the desire of knowledge.
Hom.) says that the irrational part of the soul is divided into the desiderative and irascible, and Damascene says the same (De Fide Orth.
Noteworthy is the desiderative compound formed by adding the root _cah_, wish, to the dative of a verbal noun.
How late some of these new formations were may be seen in Greek, where the Homeric poems are still ignorant of the weak future passive, the optative future, and the aspirated perfect, and where the strong future passive occurs but once and the desiderative but twice.