required

Verb

require (third-person singular simple present requires, present participle requiring, simple past and past participle required)

1. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
   • "I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please."1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books
2. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
   • Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery.1972 June 5, “Aid for Aching Heads”, in Time
3. To demand (of someone) to do something.
   • It is required (of me) that I give evidence in court.

   Synonyms:

   provide

4. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request; to beseech.
   • I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo.1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum XI”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer...