Definitions for: Requisite


[n] anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
[adj] necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful"



Webster (1913) Definition: Req"ui*site (r?k"w?-z?t), n.
That which is required, or is necessary; something
indispensable.

God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours;
what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great
business of us all to know. --Wake.


Req"ui*site, a. [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere;
pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See Require.]
Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; ??
needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary
indispensable.

All truth requisite for men to know. --Milton.

Syn: Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. --
Req"ui*site*ly, adv. -- Req"ui*site*ness, n.

Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessary, necessity, needed, needful, required, requirement

Antonyms: inessential, nonessential

See Also: desideratum, entity, need, physical thing, want

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