Hypertext Webster Gateway: "requiring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Require \Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Required}
(-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Requiring}.] [OE. requeren,
requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; 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 C[ae]sar 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.


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