DEMAND

Definitions

1. 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak.
2. 2. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. Shak.
3. 3. To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
4. 4. To call into court; to summon. Burrill.