necessary
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Is necessary a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.Examples: "But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (chiefly UK, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, archaic, euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.Examples: "It soon became fashionable for even the poorest families to have a necessary not far from their cabin. […] The more affluent settlers painted their necessarys in bright colors and carved their names on the doors."Synonyms: bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, urinal, water closet, WCMaineUKarchaiceuphemisticusually
2. (obsolete) Necessity.Examples: "[…] loss of that whole dominion of New England, and consequently of their Majesties' other American Plantations, endangered not only by the want of provisions, but by the many ships, vessels, seamen and other necessarys in New England, ..."obsolete
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