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 .