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  • English Word Necessary Definition Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
  • English Word Necessary Definition Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
  • English Word Necessary Definition Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
  • English Word Necessary Definition A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
  • English Word Necessary Definition A privy; a water-closet.
  • English Word Necessary Definition Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
  • English Word Necessitarian Definition Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.
  • English Word Necessitarian Definition One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.
  • English Word Necessitarianism Definition The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism.
  • English Word Necessitate Definition To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
  • English Word Necessitate Definition To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
  • English Word Necessitated Definition of Necessitate
  • English Word Necessitating Definition of Necessitate
  • English Word Necessitattion Definition The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion.
  • English Word Necessitied Definition In a state of want; necessitous.
  • English Word Necessities Definition of Necessity
  • English Word Necessitous Definition Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
  • English Word Necessitous Definition Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.
  • English Word Necessitude Definition Necessitousness; want.
  • English Word Necessitude Definition Necessary connection or relation.
  • English Word Necessity Definition The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
  • English Word Necessity Definition The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
  • English Word Necessity Definition That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
  • English Word Necessity Definition That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
  • English Word Necessity Definition The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
  • English Word Neck Definition The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.
  • English Word Neck Definition Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal
  • English Word Neck Definition The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.
  • English Word Neck Definition A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
  • English Word Neck Definition That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.