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Necessitate

//nɪˈsɛsɪteɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. transitive

    "The early departure of her plane necessitated her waking up at 4 a.m."

  2. 2
    require as useful, just, or proper wordnet
  3. 3
    To force into a certain course of action; compel.

    "The 26th of August was still colder than the day previous. Ice formed in all our water-vessels, and one was necessitated to the brisker kind of exercise in order to keep warm."

  4. 4
    cause to be a concomitant wordnet

Etymology

From earlier necessitat, from Medieval Latin necessitātus, perfect past participle of necessitō (“to make necessary”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from Classical Latin necessitās (“necessity, need”) + -ō. Necessitās is derived from necesse (“unavoidable”) (from ne- (“not”) + cessus (“conceded, given up, yielded”). By surface analysis, necessitō + -ate.

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