Word Meanings - PREREQUIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To require beforehand. Some things are prerequired of us. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to PREREQUIRE)

• REQUIRER
  One who requires.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• REQUIREMENT
  1. The act of requiring; demand; requisition. 2. That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need. One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement
• PREREQUIRE
  To require beforehand. Some things are prerequired of us. Bp. Hall.
• REQUIRE
  requ; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See 1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him Shak. By