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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Necessitated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Necessitating

[Cf. L.

necessitatus

, p. p. of

necessitare

, and F.

nécessiter

. See

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable.

Sickness [might]

necessitate

his removal from the court.

South.

This fact

necessitates

a second line.

J. Peile.

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.

Verb.

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable; to compel.

The marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York.

Sickness might necessitate his removal from court.