NECESSITATE

necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand

(verb) require as useful, just, or proper; “It takes nerve to do what she did”; “success usually requires hard work”; “This job asks a lot of patience and skill”; “This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice”; “This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert”; “This intervention does not postulate a patient’s consent”

necessitate

(verb) cause to be a concomitant

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

necessitate (third-person singular simple present necessitates, present participle necessitating, simple past and past participle necessitated)

(transitive) To make necessary; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]

Source: Wiktionary

Ne*ces"si*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Necessitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Necessitating.] Etym: [Cf. L. necessitatus, p.p. of necessitare, and F. nécessiter. See Necessity.]

1. To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable. Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court. South. This fact necessitates a second line. J. Peile.

2. To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel. The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York. Clarendon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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