requisite
- required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
- something requisite; a necessary quality, thing, etc.
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Contemporary Examples of requisite
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
Some might lack the requisite national infrastructure (Walker).
And aside from doing the requisite things needed to seize the majority, there was icing on the cake, too.
Francis opted to waive the requisite second miracle for John XXIII usually needed for non-martyrs to reach sainthood.
Popes, Saints, Miracles, Weird Relics and Odd Omens Converge on RomeBarbie Latza Nadeau
April 26, 2014
Historical Examples of requisite
What courage was requisite to grapple with this giant difficulty!
At length, on finding the requisite water in its bed, I encamped.
The first and only requisite is, that they be perfectly insulated.
This, said the Prince, he was prepared to do and he gave Regnier the requisite pass.
Camps, Quarters and Casual PlacesArchibald Forbes
I think it is requisite, and as meritorious, in the one as in the other.
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
requisite
- absolutely essential; indispensable
- something indispensable; necessity
Word Origin for requisite
Word Origin and History for requisite
mid-15c., from Latin requisitus, past participle of requirere (see require). As a noun from c.1600.