redesirev.
/ˌriːdᵻˈzʌɪə/, U.S. /ˌridəˈzaɪ(ə)r/, /ˌridiˈzaɪ(ə)r/ transitive. To desire or request again. Also: to desire the return of (a thing).
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. ii. sig. Kv Therefore good Father, these are..to re-desire you, that [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 167 There is nothing the losse whereof is more easie to be supported then of that which, being lost, cannot be redesired.
1793 Louisa Mathews II. xvii. 180 A shower of tears gave some relief to her overcharged heart, when Lord Bellhammond..re-desired her to compose herself.
1999 C. A. Tsakiridou in E. Bianchi Is Feminist Philos. Philos.? xviii. 242 Plato..was enchanted to discover a world that could reproduce and redesire itself without woman.
2007 B. Hurwitz et al. in D. Nutt et al. Drugs & Future xvii. 486 Addiction to heroin is reflected on in many narratives as a method of redesiring the first, exhilarating hit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1600- to take a side
- to take a sideswipe at
- to take a sleigh ride
- to take a slipper to
- to take a smoke
- to take a sop
- to take a spill
- to take a spring of one's own fiddle
- to take a stand
- to take a stave out of a person's cog
- to take a step or steps
- to take a stone in the ear
- to take a stone up in the ear
- to take a stress
- to take a strong hold
- to take a subscription
- to take a swing at
- to take a swipe at
- to take a thing at face value
- to take a thing in at ill
- to take a thing in ill
- to take a thing in to ill
- to take a thing personally
- to take a thing seriously
- to take a thing where one can find it