Require vs. Required

(obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.

To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.

Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.

To demand of (someone) to do something.

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

Example: ‘Shall I say to CæsarWhat you require of him?’; ‘By nature did what was by law required.’;

To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

Example: ‘Just gave what life required, and gave no more.’; ‘The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed.’;

To ask as a favor; to request.

Example: ‘I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way.’;

require as useful, just, or proper;

Example: ‘It takes nerve to do what she did’; ‘success usually requires hard work’; ‘This job asks a lot of patience and skill’; ‘This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice’; ‘This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert’; ‘This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent’;

consider obligatory; request and expect;

Example: ‘We require our secretary to be on time’; ‘Aren't we asking too much of these children?’; ‘I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons’;

make someone do something

have need of;

Example: ‘This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner’;

simple past tense and past participle of require

Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.

necessary for relief or supply;

Example: ‘provided them with all things needful’;

required by rule;

Example: ‘in most schools physical education are compulsory’; ‘attendance is mandatory’; ‘required reading’;