Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Maundy Thursday
There are 3 days til Easter!
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!

Bible Dictionaries
Necessary

Webster's Dictionary

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Prev Entry
Necessariness
Next Entry
Necessitarian
Resource Toolbox
Additional Links

(1):

(a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

(2):

(a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.

(3):

(a.) Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

(4):

(n.) A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.

(5):

(n.) A privy; a water-closet.

(6):

(n.) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Necessary'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​n/necessary.html. 1828.
adsFree icon
Ads FreeProfile