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Word of the Day for Tuesday March 12, 2002:

desideratum \dih-sid-uh-RAY-tum; -RAH-\, noun;
plural desiderata:
Something desired or considered necessary.

No one in Berkeley -- at least, no one I consorted with --
thought art was for sissies, or that a pensionable job was
the highest desideratum.
--John Banville, "Just a dream some of us had," [1]Irish
Times, August 24, 1998

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great
house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.
Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
--Frederick Douglass, [2]My Bondage, My Freedom

A technical dictionary ... is one of the desiderata in
anatomy.
--Alexander Monro, Essay on Comparative Anatomy
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Desideratum is from Latin desideratum, "a thing desired," from
desiderare, "to desire."

References

1. http://www.ireland.com/
2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0940450798/ref%3Dnosim/lexico


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