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required, ppl. a.|rɪˈkwaɪəd|
[f. require v.]
a. That is required, in the various senses of the vb.; requisite.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. v. 65 The ministration, and required office. 1604― Oth. ii. i. 234 Now for want of these requir'd Conueniences, her delicate tendernesse wil finde it selfe abus'd. a1720Sewel Hist. Quakers (1722) I. iii. 80 Some of the Soldiers..took the requir'd Oath. 1849Herschel Astron. §198 Then will the final arc A. B. C. D. read off on the circle be ten times the required angle. 1885C. Leudesdorf Cremona's Proj. Geom. 291 The points H and K will lie on the required conic.
b. required reading, literature which one is required to read for an educational course or which must be read in order to gain an understanding of some subject.
1921H. J. Laski in Holmes–Laski Lett. (1953) I. 370 They are quite intolerable—pushing little professors full of pedantic details, nosing into the dull routine of unimportant matters, pushing their little quack remedies, interested in getting the wrong books on to lists of required reading. 1930Publishers' Weekly 15 Mar. 1547/1 Some of the important courses in our colleges and universities cannot be taught successfully..because of the lack of a sufficient number of books for required reading. 1954N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 31 Jan. 1/1 Here is a book that should be required reading for Democrats in 1954. 1962Listener 17 May 873/2 They genuinely stimulate thought and thus become required reading for social critics, amateur and professional. 1976J. Wainwright Walther P. 38 62 The usual sort of stuff which..was ‘required reading’ for any moderate education.
Hence reˈquiredness, the fact or quality of being required.
1938W. Köhler Place of Value in World of Facts ii. 35 At the bottom of all human activities are ‘values’, the conviction that some things ‘ought to be’ and others not. Science, however, with its immense interest in mere facts seems to lack all understanding of such ‘requiredness’. 1946C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior iii. 63 A command such as ‘Come here!’ may signify with high constancy the requiredness of the response which it prescribes. 1977A. Ecclestone Staircase for Silence iv. 78 Péguy spoke often of it as invincible anxiety; while Abraham Heschel called it a sense of requiredness, in the language of the Bible: what is required of me? |