Definition for NE-CES'SIT-OUS

NE-CES'SIT-OUS, a.

  1. Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. There are multitudes of necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.
  2. Narrow; destitute; pinching; as, necessitous circumstances.

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