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necessitated |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Necessitate \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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