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requisite |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Requisite \Req"ui*site\, a. [L. requisitus p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask See {Require}.] Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; ?? needful that it can not be dispensed with necessary indispensable. All truth requisite for men to know --Milton. Syn: Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. -- {Req"ui*site*ly}, adv -- {Req"ui*site*ness}, n. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Requisite \Req"ui*site\ (r?k"w?-z?t), n. That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable. God, on his part has declared the requisites on ours what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know --Wake. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: requisite adj : necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" [syn: {needed}, {needful}, {required}] n : anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: {necessity}, {essential}, {requirement}, {necessary}] [ant: {inessential}]
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