REQUIRE

command, require

(verb) make someone do something

ask, require, expect

(verb) consider obligatory; request and expect; “We require our secretary to be on time”; “Aren’t we asking too much of these children?”; “I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons”

want, need, require

(verb) have need of; “This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner”

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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

require (third-person singular simple present requires, present participle requiring, simple past and past participle required)

(obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14^th-17^thc.]

To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14^thc.]

Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15^thc.]

To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18^thc.]

Synonyms

• call for

Anagrams

• querier

Source: Wiktionary

Re*quire" (r-kwr"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kwrd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] Etym: [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf. Request, Requisite.]

1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him Shak. By nature did what was by law required. Dryden.

2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need. just gave what life required, and gave no more. Goldsmith. The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. J. A. Symonds.

3. To ask as a favor; to request. I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. Ezra viii. 22.

Syn.

– To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition