'Necessitate' definitions:
Definition of 'necessitate'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of]
verb
Cause to be a concomitant
Definition of 'Necessitate'
From: GCIDE
- 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 unavoidable. [1913 Webster]
- Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court. --South. [1913 Webster]
- This fact necessitates a second line. --J. Peile. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel. [1913 Webster]
- The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]