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Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry:  requisite
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  required, necessary; indispensable
Etymology:  Latin requirere 'to need'

Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry:  requisite
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  something required, necessary, or indispensable
Etymology:  Latin requirere 'to need'

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
req·ui·site       [rek-wuh-zit] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
–noun
2.something requisite; a necessary quality, thing, etc.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME < L requīsītus ptp. of requīrere to seek; see require, -ite2]

req·ui·site·ly, adverb
req·ui·site·ness, noun

1. needed, needful. See necessary. 2. necessity. See requirement.
1. dispensable. 2. luxury.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
req·ui·site       (rěk'wĭ-zĭt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Required; essential. See Synonyms at indispensable.

n.   Something that is indispensable; a requirement.


[Middle English, from Latin requīsītus, past participle of requīrere, to require; see require.]

req'ui·site·ly adv., req'ui·site·ness n.
Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
requisite 
1472, from L. requisitus, pp. of requirere (see require). The noun requisition is attested from 1503, from O.Fr. requisition, from L. requisitionem (nom. requisitio) "a searching," from requisitus; the verb is recorded from 1837.

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requisite

adjective
1. necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" [syn: needed

noun
1. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: necessity] [ant: inessential

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Requisite

Req"ui*site\ (r?k"w?-z?t), n. That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.

God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. --Wake.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Requisite

Req"ui*site\, a. [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See Require.] Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; ?? needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary indispensable.

All truth requisite for men to know. --Milton.

Syn: Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. -- Req"ui*site*ly, adv. -- Req"ui*site*ness, n.

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