Today's Word "requisite"
Required by the nature of things
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requisite \REK-wuh-zit\ (adjective) - Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; indispensable.
(noun) - That which is required or necessary; something indispensable.
"Birth is not a requisite. If it were, the golden fold would be composed of young people still in their teens... Brains are not a requisite either." -- Edgar Saltus, 'The Pomps of Satan'
Requisite derives from Latin requisitus, past participle of requirere, "to require."
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