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Necessitate   /nəsˈɛsətˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Necessitate  v. t.  (past & past part. necessitated; pres. part. necessitating)  
1.
To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable. "Sickness (might) necessitate his removal from the court." "This fact necessitates a second line."
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."






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"Necessitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... those sort of things necessitate money to start with; one has to pay premiums or invest capital in the undertaking, and so forth. And as we have no money available, and can scarcely pay our debts as it is, it's no use thinking ...
— The Unbearable Bassington • Saki

... collected and piled in heaps. The dried dung of cattle, scattered over the grazing lands, and called "buffalo chips," was stored in long ricks, also, and used sparingly, for even this simple fuel was so scarce as to necessitate care ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger

... words, there was no need of words; De Vac's intentions were too plain to necessitate any parley, so the two fell upon each other with grim fury; the brave officer facing the best swordsman that France had ever produced in a futile attempt to rescue ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... measuring the volume passed, and from that to calculate the weight. If dependence is being placed upon the volumetric method, it is advisable to lengthen the duration of the test considerably, and if possible to measure the feed-water evaporated at the same time. Such a course, however, would necessitate little change, and none of a radical nature, from the arrangement described. Where, however, the measuring method is adopted, the all-important feature, requiring on the tester's part careful personal investigation, ...
— Steam Turbines - A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of - the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers • Hubert E. Collins

... military operations he witnessed at the seat of war. For that he has no qualifications. Nor, on the other hand, would it be quite satisfactory if he wrote only of what the chaplains and other Christian workers were themselves privileged to do in connection with the war. That would necessitate great sameness, if not great tameness. These pages are rather intended to set forth the many-sided life of our soldiers on active service, their privations and perils, their failings and their heroisms, their rare endurance, and in some cases ...
— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry


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