Necessary :: Necessary (a.) Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Necessary :: Necessary (a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential..
Necessary :: Necessary (a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed..
Necessary :: Necessary (n.) 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..
Necessary :: Necessary (n.) A privy; a water-closet.
Necessary :: Necessary (n.) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station..
Necessitarian :: Necessitarian (a.) 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..
Necessitarian :: Necessitarian (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.
Necessitarianism :: Necessitarianism (n.) 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..
Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
Necessitate :: Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
Necessitude :: Necessitude (n.) Necessary connection or relation.
Necessity :: Necessity (n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness..
Necessity :: Necessity (n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
Necessity :: Necessity (n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
Necessity :: Necessity (n.) That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality..