Require \Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)