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1620–30; < Medieval Latin necessitātus, past participle of necessitāre to compel, constrain. See necessity, -ate1
1620–30; < Medieval Latin necessitātus, past participle of necessitāre to compel, constrain. See necessity, -ate1
Related forms
ne·ces·si·ta·tion, noun
ne·ces·si·ta·tive, adjective
pre·ne·ces·si·tate, verb (used with object), -tat·ed, -tat·ing.
un·ne·ces·si·tat·ed, adjective
un·ne·ces·si·tat·ing, adjective
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Necessitated
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So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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