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English Dictionary: necessitate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
necessitate v 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" Synonym(s): necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand Antonym(s): eliminate, obviate, rid of cause to be a concomitant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Necessitate \Neces"sitate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Necessitated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Necessitating}.] [Cf. L. necessitatus, p. p. of necessitare, and F. n[82]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.