necessitied (nesesitid)

[ 4. Acting from compulsion or the absolute denece ity. termination of causes: opposed to free . See free. Agents that have no thought, no volition at all, are in every thing nece ary agents. Locke , Human Understanding, II. xxi. 13. Nece ary being, one whose non-existence is impo ible; nece arian + -ism.] The doctrine that the action of the will is a nece ary effect of antecedent causes; the theory that the will is subject to the general mechanical law of cause and effect. Also nece itarianism, and rarely neces sism. Let us suppose, further, that we do not know more of cause and effect than a certain definite order of succe ion among facts, and that we have a knowledge of the nece ity of that succe ion-and hence of nece ary laws-and I, for my part, do not see what escape there is from utter materialism and nece arianism . Huxley. nece arily (nes'e-sa-ri-li), adv. In a nece ary manner; by nece ity; so that it cannot be otherwise; inevitably. The Author has shown us that design in all the Works of Nature which nece arily leads us to the Knowledge of Add is on , Spectator, No. 339. its First Cause. Powerful temperaments are nece arily intense. Froude, Sketches, p. 183.