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] 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.

||Man*da"tor (?), n. [L.]
1. A director; one who gives a mandate or
order. Ayliffe.

2. (Rom. Law) The person who employs
another to perform a mandate. Bouvier.

Man"da*to*ry (?), a. [L.
mandatorius.] Containing a command; preceptive;
directory.

Man"da*to*ry, n. Same as
Mandatary.

Man"del*ate (?), n.

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