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REQUI'RE, 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? 1 Chronicles 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. Ezekiel 34 .

5. To make necessary to need to demand.

The king's business required haste. 1 Samuel 21 .

6. To avenge to take satisfaction for. 1 Samuel 20 .