mandate

Noun is borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mandātus, past participle of mandāre (“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.

The verb is from the noun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.deɪt/

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mandate (plural mandates)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
   • 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer‎:

     Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.

2. (politics) The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
   • 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press (→ISBN), page 30

     John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

3. A papal rescript.

mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)

1. to authorize
2. to make mandatory

• mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mandate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• Homophones: mandatent, mandates

mandate

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandater
2. third-person singular present indicative of mandater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mandater
4. second-person singular imperative of mandater

mandate f

1. plural of mandata

mandate

1. second-person plural present of mandare
2. second-person plural imperative of mandare
3. feminine plural past participle of mandare

• damante

mandāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mandātus

mandate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mandatar.