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==Origins==
Anglo-Norman necessité, necessitee, nessessité and Middle French necessité (first half of the 12th cent. in Old French; also in forms necessited, necessitet) < [[classic]]al [[Latin]] necessitt-, necessits compulsion, constraint, necessary duty or obligation, need, difficulty, neediness, poverty, a bond or tie between [[persons]]
==Definitions==
===First===
Constraint or determination by some external [[force]]; an instance of this.
*1. a. The constraining [[power]] of circumstances; a condition or [[state]] of [[things]] which [[force]]s a certain course of [[action]]. Sometimes with implication of sense 9.
:b. [[work]] (also duty) of necessity: something which cannot possibly or naturally be left undone; spec.
*2. Constraint or compulsion having its basis in the natural [[order]] or [[constitution]] of [[things]], esp. such constraint conceived as a [[law]] prevailing throughout the [[material]] [[universe]] and within the [[sphere]] of [[human]] [[action]]; ([[Philosophy]]) natural compulsion admitting of no influence by the [[human]] [[volition|will]]. Also with defining [[word]], as [[absolute]], conditional, [[logic]]al, [[moral]], natural, philosophical, [[physical]], etc.
*3. a. The [[fact]] of being inevitably fixed or determined. Obs.
:b. The constraining power of something. Obs.
*4. a. An [[imperative]] need for or of something.
:b. An unavoidable compulsion or obligation of or to do something. (In later use merging with sense 8.)
*5. a. A piece of necessary business; a necessary [[act]].
:b. Necessary duty.
:c. Something unavoidable.
*6. The [[fact]] of [[being]] indispensable; the indispensability of some [[act]] or thing.
*7. A bond or tie between [[persons]]. Cf. NECESSARY adj.
===Second===
That which is needed or required.
*8. a. An indispensable or necessary [[thing]]; something which one cannot do without.
:b. As a mass noun (freq. with possessive adjective): what is necessarily required; necessaries, needs. Now rare.
===Third===
[[Senses]] relating to want or deprivation.
*9. a. The condition of being in difficulties or straits, esp. through lack of means; want, poverty.
:b. With possessive adjective or with the and modifying of-clause. Now rare.
:c. colloq. Poor [[quality]] liquor or spirits; a makeshift alcoholic drink. Obs.
*10. A specific situation of hardship or difficulty; a pressing need or want.
*11. Want or lack of a [[thing]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origins==
Anglo-Norman necessité, necessitee, nessessité and Middle French necessité (first half of the 12th cent. in Old French; also in forms necessited, necessitet) < [[classic]]al [[Latin]] necessitt-, necessits compulsion, constraint, necessary duty or obligation, need, difficulty, neediness, poverty, a bond or tie between [[persons]]
==Definitions==
===First===
Constraint or determination by some external [[force]]; an instance of this.
*1. a. The constraining [[power]] of circumstances; a condition or [[state]] of [[things]] which [[force]]s a certain course of [[action]]. Sometimes with implication of sense 9.
:b. [[work]] (also duty) of necessity: something which cannot possibly or naturally be left undone; spec.
*2. Constraint or compulsion having its basis in the natural [[order]] or [[constitution]] of [[things]], esp. such constraint conceived as a [[law]] prevailing throughout the [[material]] [[universe]] and within the [[sphere]] of [[human]] [[action]]; ([[Philosophy]]) natural compulsion admitting of no influence by the [[human]] [[volition|will]]. Also with defining [[word]], as [[absolute]], conditional, [[logic]]al, [[moral]], natural, philosophical, [[physical]], etc.
*3. a. The [[fact]] of being inevitably fixed or determined. Obs.
:b. The constraining power of something. Obs.
*4. a. An [[imperative]] need for or of something.
:b. An unavoidable compulsion or obligation of or to do something. (In later use merging with sense 8.)
*5. a. A piece of necessary business; a necessary [[act]].
:b. Necessary duty.
:c. Something unavoidable.
*6. The [[fact]] of [[being]] indispensable; the indispensability of some [[act]] or thing.
*7. A bond or tie between [[persons]]. Cf. NECESSARY adj.
===Second===
That which is needed or required.
*8. a. An indispensable or necessary [[thing]]; something which one cannot do without.
:b. As a mass noun (freq. with possessive adjective): what is necessarily required; necessaries, needs. Now rare.
===Third===
[[Senses]] relating to want or deprivation.
*9. a. The condition of being in difficulties or straits, esp. through lack of means; want, poverty.
:b. With possessive adjective or with the and modifying of-clause. Now rare.
:c. colloq. Poor [[quality]] liquor or spirits; a makeshift alcoholic drink. Obs.
*10. A specific situation of hardship or difficulty; a pressing need or want.
*11. Want or lack of a [[thing]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
