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‡NECESSITATE, ppl.adj. Necessitated, compelled by necessity (ne.Sc. 1963).Sc. 1700 Seafield Corresp. (S.H.S.) 303:
They were necessitat to run to the nearest shoar.Per. 1714 R. Smith Poems 65:
Ye make my Pen gust in my Nose, That I'm necessitat to close.Sc. 1739 C. D. Bentinck Dornoch (1926) 443:
He was necessitate to stay from Sermon that afternoon to wait of a Child of his that had two fits of the falling sickness that day.
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