REQUIRED

compulsory, mandatory, required

(adjective) required by rule; “in most schools physical education is compulsory”; “attendance is mandatory”; “required reading”

needed, needful, required, requisite

(adjective) necessary for relief or supply; “provided them with all things needful”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

required

simple past tense and past participle of require

Adjective

required (comparative more required, superlative most required)

Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.

Source: Wiktionary

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REQUIRE

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

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