Category:Require

Re*quire" (r-kwr"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kwrd"); p. pr. & Vb. n. Requiring.] Etym: [oe. requeren, requiren, of. requerre, f. Requ; 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 cæsar what you require of him shak. 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.