require

REQUI'RE, verb transitive [Latin 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 21:3. 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 8:22. [In this sense, the word is rarely used.] 4. To call to account for. I will require my flock at their hand. Ezekiel 34:10. 5. To make necessary; to need; to demand. The king's business required haste. 1 Samuel 21:8. 6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. 1 Samuel 20:16.