Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Require

Require (r?-kw?r") , transitive verb

[Old English requeren, requiren, Old French requerre, French requ{not transcribed}rir; Latin pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; compare Latin requirere. See Query, and compare Request, Requisite.]

1.
To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? — Shakespeare
By nature did what was by law required. — Dryden
2.
To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.
Just gave what life required, and gave no more. — Goldsmith
The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. — J. A. Symonds
3.
To ask as a favor; to request.
I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. — Ezra viii. 22