nécessairement (-sèr-mān), adv., necessarily; of course.
nécessitante, adj.f., absolute; (theol.) compulsory.
nécessité, n.f., necessity, exigence; need, want. — n’a point de loi; necessity knows no law. Faire de — vertu; to make a virtue of necessity. La — est la mère de l’invention; necessity is the mother of invention. Les —s de la nature; the wants of nature. De —; of necessity, necessarily.
nécessiter, v.a., to compel, to force; to necessitate; to oblige, to imply.
nécessiteu-x, -se, adj., necessitous, needy.
nécessiteux, n.m., pauper.
nec plus ultra, n.m., (n.p.) ne plus ultra.
nécrologe, n.m., obituary.
nécrologie, n.f., necrology, obituary.