necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua
non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death.
needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency.
requisition &c (request) 765, (exaction) 741; run upon; demand,
call for.
charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept.
desideratum &c (desire) 865; want &c (deficiency) 640.
V. require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without,
not be able to dispense with; prerequire†.
render necessary, necessitate, create a, necessity for, call for,
put in requisition; make a requisition &c (ask for) 765, (demand) 741.
stand in need of; lack &c 640; desiderate†; desire &c 865; be
necessary &c Adj.
Adj. required &c v.; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative,
essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in
request.
urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing.
in want of; destitute of &c 640.
Adv. ex necessitate rei &c (necessarily) 601 [Lat.]; of necessity.
Phr. there is no time to lose; it cannot be spared, it cannot be
dispensed with; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Lat.] [Quintilian];
necessitas non habet legem [Lat.]; nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te
[Lat.] [Martial].