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Webster 1913 Edition

Require

Re-quire′

(r?-kw?r′)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Required
(-kw?rd′)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Requiring
.]
[OE.
requeren
,
requiren
, OF.
requerre
, F.
requ[GREEK]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 Caesar
What you
require
of him?
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Require

REQUI'RE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. requiro; re and quaero, to seek. See Query.]
1.
To demand; to ask, as of right and by authority. We require a person to do a thing, and we require a thing to be done.
Why then doth my lord require this thing? 1Chron. 21.
2.
To claim; to render necessary; as a duty or any thing indispensable; as, the law of God requires strict obedience.
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 8.
[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]
4.
To call to account for.
I will require my flock at their hand. Ezek. 34.
5.
To make necessary; to need; to demand.
The king's business required haste. 1Sam. 21.
6.
To avenge; to take satisfaction for. 1Sam. 20.

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