REQUI'RE, v.t. [L. requiro; re and quaero, to seek. See Query.] 1. To demand; to ask, as of right and by authority. We require a person to do a thing, and we require a thing to be done.Why then doth my lord require this thing? 1Chron. 21.2. To claim; to render necessary; as a duty or any thing indispensable; as, the law of God requires strict obedience.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 8.[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]4. To call to account for.I will require my flock at their hand. Ezek. 34.5. To make necessary; to need; to demand.The king's business required haste. 1Sam. 21.6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. 1Sam. 20.
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