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The act of imparting, or the thing imparted. The necessity of this impartation. I. Taylor.

passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and…

ernal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. Everything labors under and intestine necessity. Cudworth.

ed commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. Thus first Necessity invented stools. Cowper.

The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. Locke. This liberty of j…

ently called "deaconing' the hymn or psalm in the churches, was brought about partly from necessity. N. D. Gould.

soft asleep." Spenser. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity. Milton.

bers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings. If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximian had massacred the Theban legion. Macaulay.…

Need; necessity. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

applied to other shells similarly marked. -- To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]

To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism. Hixley.

In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.

Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. M. Arnold.