necessar, a. and n. Sc.
(ˈnɛsɛsər)
Forms: 5–6 necessare, 5–6 necessair, (6 -e), 6 necesser, necesare, neccessare, 6–7, 9 necessar.
[ad. L. necessār-ius necessary.]
A. adj. Necessary.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxvii. (Machor) 691 Bukis, þat ware necessare to hyme to prech godis lare. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 67 It is necessair that ane be as prince, and all the lave be obeysant till it. 1533 Gau Richt Vay 32 Ye licht of grace is necesser to scheyne in the..blyndnes of natur. 1561 Winȝet First Tract. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 5 The trew Word of God necessar to al manis saluation. 1633 W. Struther True Happiness 23 The necessity is great, because it is about this greatest necessar one thing. 1656 in Boyd's Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 35/1 Necessar materialls..to the buildings. c 1714 in Maidment Ballads (1844) 69 All things are provided that necessar be. 1821 W. Liddle Poems 50 (E.D.D.), Adversity is necessar If it's not too severe. 1882 G. Macdonald Castle Warlock xxix, Some said he had sellt himself, but I'm thinkin' it was na necessar'. |
B. n. in pl. Necessaries. Now rare or Obs.
| 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 419 A gret sum of siluer, als vtheris necesares to sustein the weiris. 1632 Lithgow Trav. vi. 269 Each furnisher..giueth warning to his friends, to come receiue their necessars. 1699 R. Sinclair in Leisure Hour (1883) 205/1 Item for keeping of the house in fresh meat and other necessars. 1725 in Peterkin Notes (1822) 221 The carpenter having neglected to take some necessars with him for the boat's reparation. |