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English Dictionary: REQUIRED	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
required adj necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" Synonym(s): needed, needful, required, requisite required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" Synonym(s): compulsory, mandatory, required
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. requ[?]rir; 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 C[91]sar 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.