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Necessitate

Necessitate Meaning & Definition
Necessitate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Necessitate?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Necessitate: ask | call for | demand | involve | need | postulate | require | take

Related Terms | Find terms related to Necessitate:

See Also | bring about | cost | cry for | cry out for | draw | entail | govern | imply | mean

Necessitate In Webster's Dictionary

\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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