mandate
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Noun is from Latin mandatum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mandatus, past participle of mandare (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.
Verb is from the noun.
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[edit] Noun
mandate (plural mandates)
- An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
[edit] Translations
official command
[edit] Verb
mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)
- to authorize
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
authorize
[edit] External links
- mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- mandate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Italian
[edit] Noun
mandate f.
- Plural form of mandata.
[edit] Verb
mandate
- second-person plural present tense of mandare
- second-person plural imperative of mandare
- feminine plural past participle of mandare
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[edit] Latin
[edit] Participle
mandāte
- vocative masculine singular of mandātus