figurative. To have a natural right or claim to; to demand, to call for. archaic.

To beg or call for loudly and imploringly, or with tears; figurative to be in pressing need of, to demand in the name of justice (see above 2c).

Of things: To call for, demand, or require; to be entitled to, deserve, have a right to.

To call for, demand loudly. Also figurative of things. Obsolete.

figurative. To cry out for.