miss (v.) Copy link Outline I. Not to hit the markII. To omit, pass by without noticingIII. To feel the want of1. dēsīdĕro, 12. rĕquīro, quīsīvi, ītum, 3 (to look for without finding) • miss (v.): I. Not to hit the mark: perh. ăberro, 1 (Kr.).: more precisely, destinato aberrare: or, destinatum non ferire, cf. Curt. 7, 5, fin.: also, Hor. A. P. 350 (non semper feriet, quodcunque minabitur [= destinatum] arcus). Sometimes intercĭdo (to fall between) may serve; cf. Liv. 38, 22, ad fin. (quum quo plures ac densiores erant, eo minus vani quicquam intercideret teli): in same sense, frustra mitti, Caes. B. C. 1, 45: Vulg. Judic. xx. 16 has, ut capillum quoque possent percutere, et nequaquam in alteram partem ictus lapidis deferretur. Phr.: without once missing, continuo et sine frustratione, Quint. 2, 20, 3. II. To omit, pass by without noticing: praetermitto, 3: v. to omit. Phr.: I have hardly m.'d attending a single (reader), equidem prope nemini defui, Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 6: to m. an opportunity, occasionem amittere (v. to let slip). III. To feel the want of: 1. dēsīdĕro, 1: the longer he is away, the more I m. him, quanto diutius abest, tanto magis desidero, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 16: Cic. So expr. by dēsīdĕrium, with a verb: he m.'d his son so dreadfully, ita magno desiderio fuit ei filius, Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 5: so, desiderio teneri alicujus rei, Cic. Sen. 10, 33. See also missing (adj.). 2. rĕquīro, quīsīvi, ītum, 3 (to look for without finding): to m. the ornaments of peace and the resources of war, et pacis ornamenta et belli subsidia r., Cic. Man. 2, fin.: I m. many whom once I saw, multos requiro quos quondam vidi, Ov. M. 7, 515. So sometimes quaero: Prop. 1, 17, 18.