What does requisite mean?
Definitions for requisite
ˈrɛk wə zɪtreq·ui·site
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Princeton's WordNet
necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessaryadjective
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"
needed, needful, required, requisiteadjective
necessary for relief or supply
"provided them with all things needful"
Wiktionary
requisitenoun
An indispensable item; a requirement.
requisiteadjective
Essential, required, indispensable.
Etymology: From requisitus, perfect passive participle of requiro, from which English require.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
REQUISITEadjective
Necessary; needful; required by the nature of things.
Etymology: requisitus, Lat.
When God new modelled the world by the introduction of a new religion, and that in the room of one set up by himself, it was requisite, that he should recommend it to the reasons of men with the same authority and evidence that enforced the former. Robert South, Sermons.
Cold calleth the spirits to succour, and therefore they cannot so well close and go together in the head, which is ever requisite to sleep. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
Prepare your soul with all those necessary graces, that are more immediately requisite to this performance. William Wake.
Requisitenoun
Any thing necessary.
Res non parta labore, sed relicta, was thought by a poet to be one of the requisites to a happy life. Dryden.
For want of these requisites, most of our ingenious young men take up some cried up English poet, adore him, and imitate him, without knowing wherein he is defective. Dryden.
This God on his part has declared for the requisites on ours, what we must do to obtain these blessings, is the great business of us all to know. William Wake.
ChatGPT
requisite
Requisite refers to something that is necessary or indispensable for a particular purpose, task, or situation. It can be an object, a condition, a quality, or a certain level of skill or knowledge.
Webster Dictionary
Requisitenoun
that which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable
Requisiteadjective
required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Requisite
rek′wi-zit, adj. required: needful: indispensable.—n. that which is required: anything necessary or indispensable.—adv. Req′uisitely.—ns. Req′uisiteness, state of being requisite; Requisi′tion, the act of requiring: an application—for a public meeting, for a person to become a candidate for Parliament, &c.: a demand, as for necessaries for a military force: a written request or invitation.—v.t. to make a requisition or demand upon, to seize.—n. Requisi′tionist, one who makes a requisition.—adj. Requis′itive.—n. Requis′itor.—adj. Requis′itory.—n. Requis′itum, that which a problem asks for.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of requisite in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of requisite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of requisite in a Sentence
Sen. Sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to a central requisite of the job to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil rights, equal rights and justice for all of our citizens.
We are happy to move into a fixed position after a period of quite some difficulty and unacceptable conditions, i can go to all kinds of places and meet people as usual - with the requisite preparations, of course.
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918):
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid.
People need to just hold their horses. They need to understand and be reminded of the fact that this was done with standard practices, a federal judge was involved, Justice Department made the requisite showing, they got a search warrant, they collected the information.
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