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tlie nature of the zodiacal light, we fliould then be 
obliged to admit the exiftence of an effeft without its 
caufe. An idea of its phofphorical condition is not more 
philofophical, unlefs we could fhew from what fource of 
phofphorical matjter fuch immeafurable trafts of lumi¬ 
nous phenomena could draw their exiftence and perma¬ 
nency ; for, though minute changes have been obferved, 
yel: a general refemblance, allowing for the difference of 
telefcopes, is ftill to be perceived in the great nebulofity 
of Orion, ever Jince the time of its firft: difcovery. 
Herfchel. 
NEB'ULOUS, adj. Mifty ; cloudy. 
NEBUS'CHEL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
JBoleflau: fix miles north-eaft of Melnik. 
NEBU'ZAR A'DAN, [Heb. fruits of judgment.] A 
man’s name. 
NACA'TION, f. [from Lat. ncco, to kill.] The aft of 
killing. Bailey. , 
NECAU', a town of Africa, in the country of Bile- 
dulgerid: 150 miles fouth-eaft of Beni Mezzab. 
NECAU'S, a town of Africa, in the country of Algiers : 
100 miles fouth-weft of Conftantinople. 
NECESSA'RIAN, f. One of thofe who are advocates 
for the doftrine of philofophical neceffity. More pro¬ 
perly neceffitarian. But it is a bad word, fays Mr. Todd, 
and has no ufeful meaning. Dr. Prieftley employs it. 
NECESSARILY, adv. Indifpenfably.—I would know 
by fome fpecial inftance, what one article of Chriftian 
faith, or what duty required neceffarily unto all men’s 
falvation, there is, which the very reading of the word of 
God is not apt to notify. Hooker. —Every thing is en¬ 
dowed with fuch a natural principle, whereby it is necef¬ 
farily inclined to promote its own prefervation and well¬ 
being. Wilkins. —By inevitable confequence.—They who 
recall the church unto that which was at the firft, muft 
neceffarily fet bounds and limits unto their fpeeches. 
Hooker— By fate; not freely.—The church is not of fuch 
a nature as would neceffarily, once begun, preferve itfelf 
for ever. Pearfon. —They fubjefted God to the fatal chain 
of caufes, whereas they Ihould have refolved the necefilty 
of all inferior events into the free determination of God 
himfelf; who executes neceffarily that which he firft pro- 
poled freely. South. 
NEC'ESSARINESS, f. The ftate of being neceflary. 
NECESSARY, adj. [neceJJ’arius, Lat.] Needful; indif¬ 
penfably requifite.—Being it is impofiible we Ihould have 
the fame fanftity which is in God, it will be neceffary to 
declare what is this holinefs which maketh men be ac¬ 
counted holy ones, and called faints. Pearfon. —A certain 
kind of temper is neceffary to the pleafure and quiet of 
our minds, confequently to our liappinefs; and that is 
holinefs and goodnefs. Tillotfon. —The Dutch would go 
on to challenge the military government and the reve¬ 
nues, and reckon them among what lhall be thought ne- 
ceffary for their barrier. Swift. 
All greatnefs is in virtue underftood ; 
’Tis only neceffary to be good. Dry den's Ayrcng. 
Not free; fatal; impelled by fate : 
Death, a neceffary end. 
Will come when it will come. Shakefpeare. 
Conclufive; decifive by inevitable confequence. They 
refolve us not what they underftand by the command¬ 
ment of the word ; whether a literal and formal com¬ 
mandment, or a commandment inferred by any neceffary 
inference. White. —No man can fhew by any neceffary ar¬ 
gument, that it is naturally impofiible that all the rela¬ 
tions concerning America fliould be falfe. Tillotfon, 
Pref. 
NEC'ESSARY, f. That which is not only convenient, 
but needful, and not to be left out of daily ufe ; as, Tea 
is become a neceffary of life. It is moftly ufed in the 
plural.—The right a fon has, to be maintained and pro¬ 
vided with the neceffaries and conveniences of life, out of 
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his father's ftock, gives him a right to fucceed to his 
father’s property for his own good. Locke. 
NEC'ESSARY, f. a privy.—The boatmen make ufe of 
this part of the beach as a. neceffary. Swinburne's Trim, 
through Spain. 
To NECESSITATE, v. a. [from necefftas, Latin.] To 
make neceflary; not to leave free; to exempt from choice. 
—The marquis of Newcaftle, being prefied on both fides, 
was neccffilated to draw all his army into York. Clarendon. 
Man feduc’d, 
And flatter’d out of all, believing lies 
Againft his Maker: no decree of mine 
Concurring to neccffitate his fall. Milton. 
NECESSITA'TION, f. The aft of making neceflary; 
fatal compulfion.—Where the law makes a certain heir, 
there is a necejjitation to one ; where the law doth not 
name a certain heir, there is no necejjitation to one, and 
there they have power or liberty to choofe. Bramhull 
again/l Hobbes. 
NECESSITIED, adj. In a ftate of want. Not ufed. 
This ring w'as mine ; and, when I gave it Helen, 
I bad her, if her fortunes ever flood 
Neceffitied to help, that by this token 
I v'ould relieve her. Shakefpeare's All's well. 
NECESSITOUS, adj. [neceffiteux, Fr.] Prefled with 
poverty.—In legal feifures, and righting himfelf on thofe 
who, though not perfeftly infolvent, are yet very neceffi- 
tous, a good man will not be hafty in going to extremities. 
Kettlewell. —There are multitudes of neceffitous heirs and 
penurious parents, parfons in pinching circumftances, 
with numerous families of children. Arbuthnot. 
NECESSITOUSNESS, f. Poverty ; want ; need. — 
Univerfal peace is demonftration of univerfal plenty, for 
where there is want and neceffitoujnefs, there will be quar¬ 
relling. Burnet's Theory. 
NECESSITUDE, f. [from neceffitudo, Lat ] Want; 
need.—The mutual necejjitudes of human nature necefla- 
rily maintain mutual offices between them. Hale'sOrig. of 
Mankind. —Dr. Jolmfon adds “ Friendfhip” as another 
meaning of this word. It is indeed one of the fignifica- 
tions of neceffitudo , Lat. but we have never met with it 
in Englilh. 
NECESSITU'DINARY, adj. Belonging to friendfhip. 
Bailey. 
NECESSITY, f. [ riebeffitas , Lat.] Cogency ; compul¬ 
fion ; fatality.—Though there be no natural neceffity , that 
fuch things muft be fo, and that they cannot poffibly be 
otherwife without implying a contradiftion ; yet may 
they be fo certain as not to admit of any reafonable doubt 
concerning them. Wilkins. 
Neceffity and chance 
Approach not me ; and what I will is fate. Milton. 
State of being neceflary; indifpenablenefs.—Racine ufed 
the chorus in his Efther, but not that he found any ne- 
cefity of it; it was only to give the ladies an occafion of 
entertaining the king with vocal mufick. Dryden. —Want; 
need; poverty.—We are firft to confult our ov/n neceffi- 
iies-, but then the neeeffities of our neighbours have a 
Chriftiaa right to a part of $y'hat we have to fpare. 
L' Eftrange. 
The art of our neeeffities is Arrange, 
That can make vile things precious. Shakefpeare. 
Things neceflary for human life.—Great part of the world 
are free from the neeeffities of labour and employment, 
and have their time and fortunes in their own difpofal. 
Law. • 
Thefe fliould be hours for neeeffities, 
Not for delights; times to repair our nature 
With comforting repofe. Shakefpeare's Hen. VIII. 
Cogency of argument 5 inevitable confequence.—There 
never 
