necessitate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

NECESSITATE, verb transitive To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable; to compel. The marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York. Sickness might necessitate his removal from court.
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