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requisite

adj
/ˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/UK/ˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/US

Etymology

From Latin requīsītus, perfect passive participle of requīrō (“to require, seek, ask for”), from which English require.

  1. derived from requīsītus

Definitions

  1. Essential, indispensable, required.

    • Please submit the requisite papers before the end of the financial year.
    • They ſay he is the King of Perſea. But if he dare attempt to ſtir your ſiege, Twere requiſite he ſhould be ten times more, For all fleſh quakes at your magnificence.
    • [W]e endeavour to preſent our Gard'ners with a compleat Cycle of what is requiſite to be done throughout every Moneth of the Year: [...]

  2. An indispensable item

    An indispensable item; a requirement.

    • She had a good sort of coarse cleverness, admirably fitted to get on in the world; she possessed those two first requisites, a good constitution and a good temper;...
    • But this something, what is it, unless the happiness of others, or some of the requisites of happiness?
    • The main requisite is to brew a tasty, palateful and wholesome beer […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at requisite. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at requisite. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at requisite

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA