Thesaurus: mandate

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1. n. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
2. n. A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.
3. n. A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
4. n. a document giving an official instruction or command
5. n. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves
6. n. the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
7. v. assign under a mandate
8. v. make mandatory
9. v. assign authority to
10. 1. An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. Dryden. 2. (Canon Law) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation. 3. (Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine.
11. A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to putthe person therein named in possession of the first vacant beneficein his collation.
12. v:26/n:74 n. a document giving an official instruction or command n. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves n. the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory