Definition for MAN'DATE

MAN'DATE, n. [L. mando, to command.]

  1. A command; an order, precept or injunction; a commission. This dream all-powerful Juno sends; I bear / Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. Dryden.
  2. In 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. Encyc.

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