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1566 J. Barthlet Pedegrewe Heretiques f. 20^v There is in holy orders, that of their speciall nature and requisitenesse therevnto due, ought to hinder and forbidde matrimonie.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xxiii. 726 Which they steepe in the decoction of the seed or flowers of hops..greatly standing vpon the requisitenes of their hops thereunto.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xx. 303 In some few cases the requisiteness and danger of destructive valour may make its Actions become a vertuous Patriot.

1711 B. Allen Nat. Hist. Mineral-waters Great Brit. Ep. Prefatory sig. b Nothing more seems necessary to be said of a Part of Medicine, the Materia medica, to the Requisiteness of its being known.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. iii. §11. 104 An additional proof of the requisiteness of attending to the customs of the East.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. iii. v. §3 That particular condition..whose requisiteness..we happen to be insisting on at the moment.

1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. iii. 32 The general reported the ensuing quarrel as a proof of..the requisiteness of troops for the support of ‘the laws’.

1923 A. B. Wolfe Conservatism, Radicalism, & Sci. Method xii. 332 The ‘requisiteness’ of the amount of knowledge any individual is to have is therefore a relative matter.

1962 J. B. Anderson Stud. Empirical Philos. xvi. 178 There is something (some ground or reason) that lifts ‘what is to be done’ above discussion, something that establishes its necessity or ‘requisiteness’.

2004 K. Applbaum Marketing Era 247 Focusing on the preexisting social facticity of possessive individualism..and its requisiteness to the functioning of market society.