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rmal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.

One who makes or signs a requisition.

asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand. The demand [is] by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17. He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought…

volution of the crown through a . . . channel known and conformable to old constitutional requisitions. De Quincey.

ophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate. He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him. Ps. cxlv. 199. Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. Milton. Servants must their masters' minds fulfill…

A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army. [India] Wilhelm.

collection of taxes; a collecting by execution. Levy in mass Etym: [F. levée en masse], a requisition of all able-bodied men for military service.

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

One who, or that which, makes requisition; a requisitionist. [R.]

One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts.