Definition of "desire"

Neither shall any man desire thy land.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 34:24

[S]eeing you desire your child to live, / Thanks, but you work against your own desire; […]

1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Lancelot and Elaine”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VI), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], page 88

And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Acts ]

Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 15

Then shee said, Did I desire a sonne of my Lord ? did I not say, Doe not deceiue me?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Kings 4:28

Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene vii]

A doleful case desires a doleful song.

c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses

She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36