requisite
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/
adj
Etymology: From Latin requīsītus, perfect passive participle of requīrō (“to require, seek, ask for”), from which English require.
- Essential, indispensable, required.
“Please submit the requisite papers before the end of the financial year.”
“They ſay he is the King of Perſea. But if he dare attempt to ſtir your ſiege, Twere requiſite he ſhould be ten times more, For all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.”
noun
Etymology: From Latin requīsītus, perfect passive participle of requīrō (“to require, seek, ask for”), from which English require.
- An indispensable item; a requirement.
“She had a good sort of coarse cleverness, admirably fitted to get on in the world; she possessed those two first requisites, a good constitution and a good temper;...”
“But this something, what is it, unless the happiness of others, or some of the requisites of happiness?”