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verb

Require v. t. (past & past part. required; pres. part. requiring)

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?" "By nature did what was by law required."

To demand or exact as indispensable; to need. "Just gave what life required, and gave no more." "The two last (biographies) require to be particularly noticed."

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."

Synonyms: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.

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"Required" Quotes from Famous Books

... sir, Do you get my letters'! or do I write only for the entertainment of the clerks of the post-office? I have not heard from you this month! It will be very unlucky if my last to you has miscarried, as it required an answer, of importance to you, and very ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... time in doing his bidding, setting forth the articles required with a timid and practiced celerity. But even after the brandy had been tasted and praised by Hanson, and his appreciation of it accepted with a grave Spanish bow by Gallito, the latter had made no move to open the conversation, but had insisted upon his guest trying his cigarettes and giving an ...

— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... one of slave-blood could not pretend to wed a high-born lady. A woman would sometimes require some proof of power or courage at her suitor's hands; thus Gywritha, like the famous lady who weds Harold Fairhair, required her husband Siwar to be over-king of the whole land. But in most instances the father or brother betrothed the girl, and she consented to their ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... lounge in the same place and attitude, smoking his cigar in his own easy way, and looking pleasantly at the whelp, as if he knew himself to be a kind of agreeable demon who had only to hover over him, and he must give up his whole soul if required. It certainly did seem that the whelp yielded to this influence. He looked at his companion sneakingly, he looked at him admiringly, he looked at him boldly, and put up ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... the land-traveling and climbing fishes and the lower forms of Reptiles. The Frog shows us the process of evolution between the two families, its life history reproducing the gradual evolution which may have required ages to perfect in the case of the species. You will remember that the embryo stages of all creatures reproduce the various stages of evolution through which the species has passed—this is true in Man as well as in ...

— A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka

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