necessitationn.

1648 J. Goodwin Sion-colledg Visited 25 Onely the necessitation or compulsion of grace, is no Article of my creed.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 154 Now what fatation, or fatall necessitation to man, among all these?

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. John xi. 44 Souls go not to Heaven by Necessitation, as the Fire naturally and necessarily ascends upward.

1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 182/2 In human conduct..there is much of necessitation; that is of behaviour resulting from local transient circumstance.

1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith v. i. §2. 266 Conceding no compromise..to a necessitation of nature.

1886 A. W. Momerie Personality (ed. 3) 132 Our necessitation is..compatible with a certain ability to control the forces of nature.

1919 Mind 28 317 One element of reality..necessitates another... The possibility of such necessitation can be understood only in particular instances.

1966 R. Taylor Action & Purpose iii. 18 It has become almost a commonplace in philosophy that we have officially got rid of such esoteric concepts as power and necessitation, reducing causation to..invariant succession between states, processes, and events.

1992 Mind 101 133 Armstrong..argues that the law N(F,G), which is the holding of the nomic necessitation relation between the first-order universals F and G, is both a second-order particular and a first-order universal.