different between require vs requite
require
English
Etymology
From Old French requerre (French: requérir), from Vulgar Latin *requærere, from Latin requ?r? (“I require, seek, ask for”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???kwa??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???kwa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Hyphenation: re?quire
Verb
require (third-person singular simple present requires, present participle requiring, simple past and past participle required)
- (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14th-17thc.]
- I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Mark V:
- I requyre the in the name of god, that thou torment me nott.
- To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14thc.]
- 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:
- "I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please."
- 2009, Vikram Dodd, The Guardian, 29 December:
- ‘Regrettably, I have concluded, after considering the matter over Christmas […], that I can no longer maintain the high standard of service I require of myself, meet the demands of office and cope with the pressures of public life, without my health deteriorating further.’
- 1998, Joan Wolf, The Gamble, Warner Books:
- Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15thc.]
- 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:
- Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery.
- 2009, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 7 February:
- A weapon small enough to put on a missile would require uranium enriched to more than 90% U-235.
- 1972, "Aid for Aching Heads", Time, 5 June:
- To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18thc.]
- 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:
- After Aug 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi.
- 2007, Allegra Stratton, "Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK", The Guardian, 5 December:
- The government would like to require non-British fiances who wish to marry a British citizen to sit an English test.
- 1970, "Compulsory Midi", Time, 29 June:
Synonyms
- call for
Related terms
- requirement
- requisite
- request
Translations
Further reading
- require in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- require in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- require at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- querier
Interlingua
Verb
require
- present of requirer
- imperative of requirer
Latin
Verb
requ?re
- second-person singular present active imperative of requ?r?
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requite
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic) requit
Etymology
From Middle English requiten (“to repay”), from Old French requiter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???kwa?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
requite (third-person singular simple present requites, present participle requiting, simple past and past participle requited)
- (transitive) To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense
- 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 3 scene 3
- But, remember—
- For that's my business to you,—that you three
- From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
- Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
- Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
- The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
- Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
- Against your peace.
- 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Few Words on Secret Writing
- Good cryptographists are rare indeed; and thus their services, although seldom required, are necessarily well requited.
- 1937, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir (translators), Franz Kafka, The Trial, Vintage Books (London), published 1983, pg. 91, original published 1925
- He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.
- 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 3 scene 3
- (intransitive) To retaliate.
Derived terms
- unrequited
Translations
Noun
requite
- requital
References
- requite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- requite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- quieter
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