3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Require \Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Required} (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Requiring}.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; 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 C[ae]sar 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. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: required adjective 1: necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" [syn: {needed}, {needful}, {requisite}] 2: required by rule; "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: {compulsory}, {mandatory}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 42 Moby Thesaurus words for "required": absolute, binding, called for, compulsatory, compulsory, conclusive, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, dictated, entailed, essential, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, imposed, indicated, indispensable, inevitable, involuntary, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary, needed, needful, obligatory, peremptory, prerequisite, prescript, prescriptive, requisite, ultimate, unforgoable, vital, wanted, without appeal

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