Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being requisite or necessary; necessity.
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- noun The state or quality of being
requisite .
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- noun the state of being absolutely required
Etymologies
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Examples
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And in practice that particular condition is usually styled the cause, whose share in the matter is superficially the most conspicuous or whose requisiteness to the production of the effect we happen to be insisting on at the moment.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839
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And in practice, that particular condition is usually styled the cause, whose share in the matter is superficially the most conspicuous, or whose requisiteness to the production of the effect we happen to be insisting on at the moment.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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To beget in the church's enemies an opinion of the requisiteness of those usages, 190. 3.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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A strict adherence to the constitutions and orders of the church, is another way to settle it, by begetting in the church's enemies themselves an opinion of the requisiteness and fitness of those usages, for which they see the governors and ministers of the church (men of unexceptionable learning and integrity) so concerned, that they can by no means be brought to recede from them.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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After he had done there, he and I into the garden, and walked; and the greatest of our discourse is, his sense of the requisiteness of his parting with his being Treasurer of the Navy, if he can, on any good terms.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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After he had done there, he and I into the garden, and walked; and the greatest of our discourse is, his sense of the requisiteness of his parting with his being
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 54: June 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668
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After he had done there, he and I into the garden, and walked; and the greatest of our discourse is, his sense of the requisiteness of his parting with his being Treasurer of the Navy, if he can, on any good terms.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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After he had done there, he and I into the garden, and walked; and the greatest of our discourse is, his sense of the requisiteness of his parting with his being Treasurer of the Navy, if he can, on any good terms.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, June 1667 Pepys, Samuel 1667
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_Tria Prima_, pretend to make out by such a way, the requisiteness of their Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, to constitute mixt Bodies, without taking notice of any necessity of an Addition of Water and Earth.
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