| (a.) | Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. | |
| (a.) | Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential. | |
| (a.) | Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed. | |
| (n.) | A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life. | |
| (n.) | A privy; a water-closet. | |
| (n.) | Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station. |
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