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adjective

Necessary adj.

1.

Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. "Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."

2.

Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requisite; essential. "'T is necessary he should die." "A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds."

3.

Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

noun

Necessary n. (pl. necessaries)

1.

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.

2.

A privy; a water-closet.

3.

pl. (Law) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

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