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Ne*ces`si*tat"tion (?), n. [Cf. F.
nécessitation.] The act of making necessary, or
the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [R.] bp.
Bramhall.

Ne*ces"si*tied (?), a. In a state
of want; necessitous. [Obs.] Shak.

Ne*ces"si*tous (?), a. [Cf. F.
nécessiteux.] 1. Very needy or
indigent; pressed with poverty.

Necessitous heirs and penurious
parents.

2. Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as,
necessitous circumstances.

-- Ne*ces"si*tous*ly, adv. --
Ne*ces"si*tous*ness, n.

Ne*ces"si*tude (?), n. [L.
necessitudo, fr. necesse. See Necessray.]
1. Necessitousness; want. Sir M.
Hale.

2. Necessary connection or
relation.

Between kings and their people, parents and their
children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and
intercourse of nature.


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