Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mandate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mandate \Man"date\, n. [L. mandatum, fr. mandare to commit to
one's charge, order, orig., to put into one's hand; manus
hand + dare to give: cf. F. mandat. See {Manual}, {Date} a
time, and cf. {Commend}, {Maundy Thursday}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mandate
n 1: a document giving an official instruction or command [syn: {authorization},
{authorisation}]
2: a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War
I and inhabited by people not yet able to stand by
themselves and so put under the tutelage of some other
European power [syn: {mandatory}]
3: (politics) the commission that is given to a government and
its policies through an electoral victory
v 1: assign under a mandate; of nations
2: assign authority to
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