requisite

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: req=ui=site

CIDE DICTIONARY

requisite, n. 

 That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.  [1913 Webster]
"God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know."  [1913 Webster]

requisite, a. [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See Require.].

 Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable.  [1913 Webster]
"All truth requisite for men to know."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

requisite, adj. & n.
--adj. required by circumstances; necessary to success etc.
--n. (often foll. by for) a thing needed (for some purpose).

Derivative

requisitely adv.

Etymology

ME f. L requisitus past part. (as REQUIRE)

THESAURUS

requisite

appropriate, bare necessities, boundary condition, call for, called for, catch, clause, condign, condition, demand, demand for, deserved, desideration, desideratum, donnee, due, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, essentials, fine print, given, grounds, indicated, indispensable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, joker, kicker, limiting condition, merited, must, must item, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessity, need, need for, needed, needful, obligation, occasion, parameter, prerequirement, prerequisite, provision, provisions, proviso, required, requirement, requisition, right, rightful, saving clause, sine qua non, small print, specification, stipulation, string, suitable, terms, the necessary, the needful, ultimatum, unforgoable, vital, want, wanted, whereas

ROGET THESAURUS

requisite

Requirement

N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.