1. 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. 2. 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. Necessitattion
(Ne*ces`si*tat"tion) n. [Cf. F. nécessitation.] The act of making necessary, or the state
of being made necessary; compulsion. [R.] bp. Bramhall.
Necessitied
(Ne*ces"si*tied) a. In a state of want; necessitous. [Obs.] Shak.
Necessitous
(Ne*ces"si*tous) a. [Cf. F. nécessiteux.]
1. Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
Necessitous heirs and penurious parents.
Arbuthnot. 2. Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.
— Ne*ces"si*tous*ly, adv. — Ne*ces"si*tous*ness, n.
Necessitude
(Ne*ces"si*tude) n. [L. necessitudo, fr. necesse. See Necessray.]
1. Necessitousness; want. Sir M. Hale.
2. Necessary connection or relation.
Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety,
and intercourse of nature.
Jer. Taylor. Necessity
(Ne*ces"si*ty) n.; pl. Necessities [OE. necessite, F. nécessité, L. necessitas, fr. necesse.
See Necessary.]
1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
Urge the necessity and state of times.
Shak.
The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in.
Clarendon. 3. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; — often in the plural.
These should be hours for necessities,
Not for delights.
Shak.
What was once to me
Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown
The vast necessity of heart and life.
Tennyson. 4. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical
or moral; fate; fatality.
So spake the fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
Milton.
