Meaning of NECESSITATE
| Pronunciation: | | nu'sesi`teyt
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- [v] require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent"
- [v] cause to be a concomitant
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| | Synonyms: | | ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| | Antonyms: | | eliminate, obviate, rid of | | |
| | See Also: | | bring about, cost, cry for, cry out for, draw, entail, govern, imply, mean | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ne*ces"si*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Necessitated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Necessitating}.] [Cf. L.
necessitatus, p. p. of necessitare, and F. n['e]cessiter. See
{Necessity}.]
1. To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the
court. --South.
This fact necessitates a second line. --J. Peile.
2. To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both
sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into
York. --Clarendon.
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