Word of the Day:
necessitate
What It Means
To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
To force (a person) into a certain course of action; compel.
The early departure of her plane necessitated her waking up at 4 a.m.
Necessitate in Context
“The 26th of August was still colder than the day previous. Ice formed in all our water-vessels, and one was necessitated to the brisker kind of exercise in order to keep warm.”
Did You Know?
From earlier necessitat, from Medieval Latin necessitātus, perfect past participle of necessitō (“to make necessary”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from Classical Latin necessitās (“necessity, need”) + -ō. Necessitās is derived from necesse (“unavoidable”) (from ne- (“not”) + cessus (“conceded, given up, yielded”). By surface analysis, necessitō + -ate.
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