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According to wish; conformably to desire. [Obs.] Chapman.

One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish. Shak.

Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.

According to desire; longingly; with wishes. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chapman.

nts; keep thy word justly. Shak. I know you brave, and take you at your word. Dryden. I desire not the reader should take my word. Dryden.

o them that love God. Rom. viii. 28. This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught. Locke. She marveled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him. Hawthorne.

visible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. Rom. 1. 20. With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began. Milton.

selves wormed out of all power. Swift. They . . . wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell. Dickens.

onor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station. My father desires your worships' company. Shak.

Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. [Obs.] Hammond.

Willingness; desire. [Obs.]

uitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.

To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. "One long, yawning gaze." Landor.

To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager. Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep. Gen. xliii. 30. Your mother's heart yearn…