desirer, desyrer

[Eng. desir(e); -er.] One who desires or wishes eagerly for anything. "I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man, and give it bountiful to the desirers."- Shakesp .: Coriolanus, ii. 3. de-şir-ing, *de-syr-ynge, pr. par., a. & s. [DESIRE.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of feeling desire; desire. "My desiring was him to seen ouer al thing." Rom . of the Rose. dě-şir-oŭs, *de-syr-ous, a. [O. Fr. desiros : Fr. désireux; Ital. desideroso , from Low Lat. desider osus , from desidero to desire.] "Affeccion of this instrument is a thinge, by whiche maner." Chaucer : Test, of Love , bk. iii. dě-şir-oŭs-ne , s. [English desirous; -ne .] The quality or state of being desirous; eager longing or desire. dě-şist', v . i . [Fr. désister ; Sp. & Port. desistir ; Ital. desistere , from Lat. des is to to leave off: de = away, from, and sis to =to put or place.] To stop, cease, forbear, leave off, or discontinue (generally followed by from before the thing or practice given up, but sometimes by an infinitive). " Desist , obedient to his high command." Pope : Homer's Iliad , viii. 510. Crabb thus discriminates between to desist and to leave off: " Desist is applied to actions good, indifferent, or offensive to some person; leave off to actions that are indifferent; the former is volun. tary or involuntary, the latter voluntary; we are frequently obliged to desist , but we leave off at our option. He who annoys another must be made to desist ; he who does not wish to offend will leave of when requested." ( Crabb : Eng. Synon.) Blair discriminates the words desist , renounce, quit , and leave off as follows: "Each of these words implies some pursuit or object relinquished; but from different motives. We desist from the difficulty of accomplishing. We renounce on account disagreeablene of the object, or pursuit. We quit for the sake of some other thing which interests us more; and we leave off because we are weary of the design. A politician desists from his designs, when he finds they are impracticable; he renounces the court because he has been affronted by it; he quits ambition for study or retirement; and leaves off his attendance on the great, as he becomes old and weary of it." ( Blair : Lect. on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , 1817, vol. i., pp. 228, 229.) †dě-şist-ançe, *dě-şist-ençe, s . [Low Lat, desist anti a , desist entia , from Lat. des is tens , pr. par. of des is to .] The act of desisting, ceasing, or leav ing off; ce ation. "Men make it both the motive and excuse of their de sistance from giving any more, that they have given already."- Boyle : Works , i. 269. dě-şist-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [DESIST.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C As subst.: The act of leaving off or ceasing; ce ation, desistance. "The going into the city was a pursuance and carrying on of the enterprise, and not a desisting or departing from it."- State Trials; Sir C. Blount (an. 1600). dě-şist-Ive, a. [Eng. desist; -ive.] Ending, concluding. †dě-şi-tion, s. [Lat. desitus , pa. par. of desi no =to cease, to desist.) An end or conclusion. "The soul must be immortal, and unsubject to death or des it i on." The Soul's Immortality Defended (1645), p. 27.