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▪ I. requisition, n.|rɛkwɪˈzɪʃən|
[a. F. réquisition (12th c.), or ad. L. requīsītiōn-em, n. of action f. requīrĕre to require.]
1. a. The action of († requesting or) requiring; a († request or) demand made by a person.
1503in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 201 [Our] instaunt petition to make an instrument..and the noble men standing about to be witnes[ses, as] we made like requisition. 1566Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 485 Quhais requisitioun being bayth ressonabill, and honorabill [etc.]. 1620in Reliq. Wotton (1672) 533 Neither of them ought to deny it: provided the same requisition be seasonably made, not upon rash and precipitate advice. 1752Chesterfield Lett. (1792) III. cclxxiv. 253, I am sure you would have written, according to your engagement and my requisition. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 66 With this requisition..Montezuma was so obsequious as to comply. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xxxii, I obey your requisition and inquire the purpose of it. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xlii. (1865) V. 143 The legatus was compelled to send his son to Rome as the bearer of these requisitions.
b. A requirement, necessary condition.
1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. vii. (1852) 196 How gloriously does the Christian atonement meet this requisition! 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. viii. §59 It would be..a great mistake to imagine that the requisitions for academical degrees were ever much insisted on. 1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. Introd. 7 It is to be accounted for..by that neglect of the chief requisition of philosophy which has been already pointed out.
2. a. The (or an) action of formally requiring or calling upon one to perform some action, discharge some duty, etc.; † the fact of being so called upon. Also, a written demand of this nature.
In earlier use chiefly a Sc. (legal) term (cf. 2 b).
1553Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 149 Quhairof as yit thair can be na redress had for na requisitioun that the Wardane of Scotland can mak. Ibid. II. 192 Alexander..requirit and desyrit him to entir the said maister Thomas to the said Alexander within sex dayis efter his requisitioun. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 117 If either of the two recover from France, Places belonging to the other, he shall, upon requisition, restore them within a month. 1747in Kames Dict. Decis. (1797) IV. 161 A tenant..having affirmed, that he made requisition to the heritor for that purpose, it was questioned, if he could be allowed to prove the requisition by witnesses. 1780Burke Sp. Bristol Wks. 1792 II. 315 The reasons for taking away the penalties..and for refusing to establish them on the riotous requisition of 1780. 1840Macaulay Ess., Clive (1887) 558 According to the by-laws of the Company, there can be no ballot except on a requisition signed by nine proprietors. 1892Daily News 5 Apr. 3/7 He stated that during his lesseeship of the Lyceum he had spent 45,000l. on the house..some of this voluntarily and some under ‘requisitions’.
b. Sc. Law. ‘A demand made by a creditor that a debt be paid, or an obligation fulfilled.’
1681Stair Instit. i. xx. §22. 410 Requisition requires also the same solemnities that Premonition requires. 1693Ibid. ii. i. §4 (ed. 2) 162 But even compleat Heretable Rights themselves, containing personal Clauses of Requisition, become Moveable by the Requisition or Charge. a1768Erskine Instit. Law Scot. ii. ii. §16 (1773) I. 175 Requisition used by a creditor upon a right of wadset. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 855 In certain cases, requisition is necessary to put the debtor in mora; and then the proper way of proving requisition is by a notarial instrument.
3. The action of requiring a certain amount or number of anything to be furnished; a demand or order of this nature, esp. one made upon a town, district, etc., to furnish or supply anything required for military purposes.
1776Adam Smith W.N. iv. vii. (1869) II. 201 It has been proposed..that the colonies should be taxed by requisition. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 171 A requisition was made of the six thousand auxiliaries, which the States General were..obliged to furnish. c1806Sir R. Wilson Cape Gd. Hope in Life (1862) I. App. ix. 391 The cavalry was mounted by requisition on the best horses of the country. 1860Woolsey Introd. Internat. Law §129 After the battle of Jena..the requisition upon humbled Prussia was more than a hundred millions of francs. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 338/1 Supplies are now..stored in magazines in rear of an army, and a requisition is made on them for the daily wants of the troops. 1897Cavalry Tactics xxii. 141 When the inhabitants are hostile, and refuse to comply with the requisition, an intimation that..they will be taken by force, usually has the desired effect.
attrib.1806Sir R. Wilson Jrnl. 11 Feb. in Life (1862) I. v. 307, I..have been on several committees to fix the price of requisition horses.
4. The state or condition of being called or pressed into service or use. In phrases:
a. to put (place, call) in (or into) requisition.
1796C. Smith Marchmont IV. 56 His eldest son..having been put in requisition: he was himself, he said, too old for a soldier. 1815Helen M. Williams Narr. Events France xi. 244 As the carriages arrived near the bridge, they were immediately put in requisition [to transport the wounded]. 1827Southey Penins. War II. 477 He placed all horses and mares above a certain height in requisition for the French armies. 1831W. Godwin Thoughts Man 84 When the first novelty of his pieces was gone, they were seldom called into requisition. 1877Gladstone Glean. (1879) I. 152 The old terrors, the old bugbears, were at once put in requisition.
b. (to be) in (constant, etc.) requisition.
a1817W. Beloe Sexagenarian I. 333 The guillotine was (to use their abominable jargon) in constant requisition. 1838Lytton Alice i. iii, That duty done, once more the straw hat and Sultan were in requisition. 1868T. H. Key Philol. Ess. 204 The words..are with them in constant requisition.
5. attrib., as requisition form, requisition note, requisition notice, requisition paper, requisition slip.
1929T. H. Burnham Engineering Econ. xv. 206 Tools may only be issued against a *requisition form signed by a duly authorized official.
1916G. Frankau Poetical Wks. (1923) I. 226 A faked *requisition note.
1974P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 150 We..were alarmed by the appearance of *requisition notices on the doors of adjoining houses.
1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Apr. 1/7 Burns said he would start tonight for Los Angeles..Governor Marshall having honored *requisition papers.
1938L. Bemelmans Life Class iii. ii. 221 A stack of *requisition slips, for the carpentry department, for the painters,..for the printer.
▪ II. requisition, v.|rɛkwɪˈzɪʃən|
[f. prec. Cf. mod.F. réquisitionner (Littré Suppl.).]
1. trans.
a. To require (anything) to be furnished for military purposes; to put in requisition.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. viii, Such hundredfold miscellany of teams, requisitioned or lawfully owned, making way,..rolled here to right and to left. 1870Daily News 8 Dec., The Government authorised the prefects and sous-prefects to requisition such horses as might be needed. 1881Henty Cornet of Horse viii. (1888) 74 A considerable portion of the allied army were quartered..in large convents requisitioned for the purpose.
b. To make demands upon (a town, etc.).
1870Daily News 14 Dec., The French Army of the North, after permitting Amiens and Rouen to be..requisitioned by the enemy [etc.]. 1897Cavalry Tactics xxii. 141 When it is intended to requisition a village or town, all the outlets should be guarded.
2. To make requisition for; to demand, call for, request to have or get.
1874Burnand My Time xiv. 113 Everything necessary for his departure..had to be requisitioned hastily. 1882Besant Revolt of Man xii, They..drove about the country requisitioning provisions. 1887Pall Mall G. 6 Oct. 11/1 May I requisition your fairness to a political opponent to be allowed to point out [etc.]. 1892Ibid. 3 Aug. 3/3 He gets a weekly list of all new publications, and requisitions what he thinks he will be able to sell.
b. To press into service; to make demands on.
1879Black Macleod of D. xxxiii, And so the hospitalities of the little inn were requisitioned to the utmost.
c. To call upon, call in, for some purpose.
1887Times (weekly ed.) 14 Oct. 7/4 The military had to be requisitioned. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs II. 292 Seven men with shovels were requisitioned.
Hence requiˈsitioning vbl. n. Also attrib.
1871Daily News 19 Sept., In our camp..we are discussing the requisitioning capabilities of London... In these latter days we do not call it plunder, we call it requisitioning. |