Necessitate
[nɪ'sesɪteɪt] or [nə'sɛsɪtet]
Definition
(verb.) 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 postulate a patient's consent'.
(verb.) cause to be a concomitant.
Typed by Anton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
(v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
Typed by Anton
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Compel, force, oblige, make necessary, render unavoidable.
Editor: Stanton
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COMPEL]
Typist: Rex
Examples
- Joe threw his eye over them, and pronounced that the job would necessitate the lighting of his forge fire, and would take nearer two hours than one. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sometimes the subject may be such as to call for a long line of frequent tests which necessitate patient and accurate attention to minute details. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- About 1900, longer films came into use, which necessitated a change in handling. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This last manifestation as by far the most alarming, by reason of its threatening his prolonged stay on the premises, necessitated vigorous measures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The political enterprises of the papacy necessitated an increasing demand for money. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This necessitated first the devising and making of a large number of special tools for cutting the carbon filaments and for making and putting together the various parts of the lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Rachael made the tea (so large a party necessitated the borrowing of a cup), and the visitor enjoyed it mightily. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This necessitated watching by day on Tarzan's part to discover where the arrows were being concealed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is the presence of this gas that necessitates the safety-lamp. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have seen how one discovery, or the development of a certain art, brings in its train and often necessitates other inventions and discoveries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As one invention necessitates and begets others, so special forms of machines for sawing and working up wood into pegs were devised. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is the law of inventions that one invention necessitates and generates another. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If your disapproval of it should render you unwilling to discharge such business as it necessitates, I am sorry for it, and must seek other aid. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The production of several completed plays per week necessitates the employment of a considerable staff of people of miscellaneous trades and abilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In various ways there was a continual slow and steady growth of the industry thus created, necessitating the erection of many additional buildings as the years passed by. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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