Both Uses of
requisition
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence.†
Chpt 1.1
- He and his books were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national.†
Chpt 3.5 *
Definition:
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(requisition) to officially request, demand, or take something; or the form used to make such a request