necessitate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb require as useful, just, or proper
    call for; require; involve; need; take; demand; ask; postulate.
    • It takes nerve to do what she did
    • success usually requires hard work
    • This job asks a lot of patience and skill
    • This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
    • This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
    • This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
  2. verb cause to be a concomitant

WordNet

Ne*ces"si*tate transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. L. necessitatus, p.p. of necessitare, and F. nécessiter. See Necessity.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Necessitated ; present participle & verbal noun Necessitating
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913