Require

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Shall I say to Caesar
              What you require of him?              --Shak.
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              By nature did what was by law required. --Dryden.
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     2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.
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              Just gave what life required, and gave no more.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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              The two last [biographies] require to be
              particularly noticed.                 --J. A.
                                                    Symonds.
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     3. To ask as a favor; to request.
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              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.
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     Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order;
          demand; need.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  require
       v 1: 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 postulates a patient's consent"
            [syn: {necessitate}, {ask}, {postulate}, {need}, {take},
             {involve}, {call for}, {demand}] [ant: {obviate}]
       2: consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our
          secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of
          these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time
          for their lessons" [syn: {ask}, {expect}]
       3: make someone do something [syn: {command}, {compel}]
       4: have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent
          tuner" [syn: {want}, {need}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "require":
     affect, appoint, ask, ask for, assess, assume, authorize,
     be hurting for, be indicated, bind, blackmail, bring,
     brook no denial, call, call for, challenge, charge, charge for,
     claim, clamor for, coerce, command, commit, comprise, contain,
     crave, cry for, cry out for, demand, desire, dictate, entail,
     exact, extort, force, have occasion for, implicate, imply, impose,
     indent, insist, instruct, involve, issue an ultimatum, lack,
     lay down, lead to, leave no option, levy, make, make a demand,
     make dutiable, make imperative, make incumbent, make obligatory,
     miss, necessitate, need, obligate, oblige, order, order up,
     place an order, pledge, postulate, prerequire, prescribe, presume,
     presuppose, pro rata, prorate, put in requisition, requisition,
     run short of, saddle with, screw, set, solicit, stick for, subsume,
     take, take doing, take in, take no denial, tax, tie, tithe, want,
     want doing, warn