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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Require

Re·quire′ (r?-kw?r′), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kw?rd′); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requérir; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf. Request, Requisite.] 1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him? Shak.

By nature did what was by law required. Dryden.

2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

Just gave what life required, and gave no more. Goldsmith.

The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. J. A. Symonds.

3. To ask as a favor; to request.

I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. Ezra viii. 22.

Syn. — To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.