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necessaries

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nec·es·sar·y  (ns-sr)
adj.
1. Absolutely essential. See Synonyms at indispensable.
2. Needed to achieve a certain result or effect; requisite: the necessary tools.
3.
a. Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable: the necessary results of overindulgence.
b. Logically inevitable.
4. Required by obligation, compulsion, or convention: made the necessary apologies.
n. pl. nec·es·sar·ies
Something indispensable.
[Middle English necessarie, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessrius, from necesse; see ked- in Indo-European roots.]
necessaries
Noun, pl
essential items: the necessaries and comforts of life


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These necessaries were numerous; and had Ardan been allowed to follow his own wishes, there would have been no space remaining for the travelers.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other.
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Since then a subsistence is necessary in every family, the means of procuring it certainly makes up part of the management of a family, for without necessaries it is impossible to live, and to live well.
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