mandate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
government
politics
Etymology: First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + -dere (“to put”).
Sense 3 in Canadian English is likely a semantic loan from French mandat.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: mandates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mandates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mandating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mandated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mandated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
pos: noun
examples: Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison.
gloss: The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
pos: noun
examples: John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.
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.
gloss: A period during which a government is in power.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
examples: Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.
gloss: An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
pos: verb
examples: A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance.
Last June Illinois passed a bill requiring the state to trace sexual partners, […] but mandating the department to preserve the confidentiality of reports.
gloss: To make mandatory.
pos: verb
examples: Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.
As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.
The bill seeks to make IVF treatment more affordable by mandating coverage for fertility treatments under employer-sponsored insurance and certain public insurance plans.
gloss: To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
pos: verb
gloss: To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
especially
examples: After I have mandated my exercices.
He [sc. Archbishop Secker] then proceeds to express his disapprobation of what is called Mandating of Sermons, or repeating them from memory. This custom prevails much among foreign Divines, and throughout the whole Church of Scotland.
He rose and walked his study, ‘mandating’ his opening sentences with appropriate gestures.
I had only from that evening at six till Sabbath to mandate my two discourses.
Related words: command
commend
countermand
demand
remand
Derived words: antimandate
dual mandate
imperative mandate
mandate fraud
mandative
mandatary
mandatee
mandator
mandatory
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