necessity, necessitie

[Fr. néce ité, from Lat. nece itatem, acc. of nece itas neces sity, from_nece e nece ary; Ital. nece ità; Sp. necesidad.] I. Ordinary Language : II. Technically: 1. Anatomy: 2823 "I will show you such a nece ity in his death." Shakesp.: Othello, iv. 2. 2. The quality or state of being nece ary or indispensable; absolute need, indispensablene . "One of his men showed what nece ity be. longed to it."-Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, iii. 2. 3. Irresistible power or force applied; compulsion, whether physical or moral. "So spake the fiend, and with nece ity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds." Milton: P. L., iv. 392. 4. In the same sense as II. "Making a virtue of nece ity." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 1. 5. The absolute determination of the will by motives. 6. That which is nece ary for a purpose; a nece ary; something e ential or indispensable "These should be hours for nece ities, Not for delights." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., v. 1. 7. Extreme want or indigence; pinching poverty; pre ing need, distre . "God comfort him in this nece ity." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . I., iv. 3. II. Law : Constraint exercised upon the will, by which a person is impelled or compelled to do an act of which his judgment disapproves, and which (it is presumed) his will, if left to itself, would reject or refuse to do. Of this nature is the obligation of civil subjection, whereby the inferior is constrained by the superior to act contrary to what his own reason would suggest, as when a legislature establishes iniquity by a law, and commands the subject to do an act contrary to morality. "Another species of compulsion or nece ity is what our law calls dure per minas ; or threats and menaces, which induce a fear of death or other bodily harm, and which take away, for that reason, the guilt of many crimes and misdemeanors. There is a third species of nece ity, viz., when a man has his choice of two evils, and being under a nece ity of choosing one, he chooses the least pernicious of the two. Where, for instance, a man, by the commandment of the law, is bound to arrest another for any capital offense, or to disperse a riot, and resistance is made to his authority: it is here justifiable and even nece ary to wound or perhaps to kill the offenders, rather than permit the murderer to escape, or the riot to continue." - Black stone : Comment., bk. iv., ch. 2. IMG:content-1607.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Fatalism, taken in a wide sense, either with or without reference to a Creator and Governor of the seven cervical vertebre, nerves, veins, arteries, fascie, and anterior, lateral, and pre vertebral muscles. IMG:content-1608.png:[blocks in formation] (3) A short shaft 9. Naut.: [GOOSENECK.] 10. Ordnance: (2) The small part of a gun where the chase meets the swell of the muzzle. (1) Neck and crop : Completely. [CROP, 8.] (2) Neck or nothing : At all or any risks. (3) To tie neck and heels : To forcibly bring the chin and knees of a person together, and keep them in that state for a longer or shorter time. (4) Neck and neck : Running very close together; very close. (A metaphor taken from racing.) (5) A stiff neck: Script.: Obstinacy in sin. necrobiosis *něck, v . t . [NECK, 8.] To behead, to decapitate, "The next [hour] after that shall see him necked " Keats : Cap and Bells , xx.