Category:Necessitate

Ne*ces"si*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Necessitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Necessitating.] Etym: [cf. L. necessitatus, p.p. of necessitare, and F. nécessiter. See necessity.]

1. To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable. 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.