资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Require \Re*quire"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Required}
   (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Requiring}.] [OE. requeren,
   requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ?rir; L. pref. re- re- +
   quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See {Query}, and cf.
   {Request}, {Requisite}.]
   1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and
      authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of
      property.

            Shall I say to C[ae]sar What you require of him?
                                                  --Shak.

            By nature did what was by law required. --Dryden.

   2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

            just gave what life required, and gave no more.
                                                  --Goldsmith.

            The two last [biographies] require to be
            particularly noticed.                 --J. A.
                                                  Symonds.

   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 viii.
                                                  22.

   Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order;
        demand; need.