Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To necessitate; compel.
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Examples
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Ce n'est pas ton ordi tu ne fais rien de bien particulier dessus qui necessite que tu le laisse allumer 3h00 d'affilé sans etre devant!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Bref j'vous explique, outre la narco-cata-hypersomni-idipathique de mes deux du Pinku, je souffre aussi d'un enorme probleme aux genoux qui necessite une enorme et lourde operation (que je ne ferais jamais) mais aussi j'ai un probleme de dessous de pieds qui se resume par ça: J'ai la peau du pied super fine!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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O Be 200 é um avião a jacto, o que lhe dá mais capacidade para transportar àgua, mas também implica que necessite de uma maior distância de descolagem.
Leituras Artur 2006
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Besids this/our men do counte this Masse hauntinge a fault to be either contemned/or not so depely to be considered in theim bicause they do not synne with mynde will and affection/but as it wer compelled and of necessite.
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But I aske them/what manier a violence and compulsion this is throughe which that necessite commithe of which they make their excuse?
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Yea and the beleif of the harte is that nature that it cã not lye hydd/but must of necessite breake forth to be confessed with the mouthe.
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Other do fantisie that ther is no neade opẽly to cõfes religion/but that the inward beleif of the hart doth suffice: And if it be of vrgẽt necessite to confes ony thinge openly/yet that the confession sufficith which is made amonge the brithern which are well known and companions in Religion: Neither that the confession amonge the aduersaires is straitly required/which shall put them in daũger of lyfe.
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This is then no absolute necessite but such a one as risith of ther own corrupt affection and will, wich prouith that their action is volũtarie.
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I do not alledg this to allowe all such ceremonies as they do permitt in thos places/but only to shew that they thincke it not a matter of necessite to haue all one forme of ceremonies: The verie same thinge before thẽ did Augustine iudge as in his epistles to
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Such a retort as the famous "je ne vois pas la necessite" we have all seen attributed to Talleyrand, to Voltaire, to Henri Quatre, to an anonymous judge, and so on.
Heretics 1905
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