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Mandate   /mˈændˌeɪt/   Listen
Mandate

noun
1.
A document giving an official instruction or command.  Synonyms: authorisation, authorization.
2.
A territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves.  Synonym: mandatory.
3.
The commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory.
verb
1.
Assign under a mandate.
2.
Make mandatory.
3.
Assign authority to.






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"Mandate" Quotes from Famous Books



... interrupted the speaker: "I say, as one of the representatives of Delaware on this floor, that she had the proud and noble character of being the first to enter the Federal Union under a Constitution formed by equals. She has been the very last to obey a mandate, legislative or executive, for abolishing slavery. She has been the last slaveholding State, thank God, in America, and I am one of ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

... allowed to meddle with its smallest twig. The ax of the woodman has never resounded there. Even war and riot have passed it reverently, pausing for a moment in their devastating way. Philip of Spain, while he ordered Dutchmen to be mowed down by hundreds, issued a mandate that not a bough of the beautiful Wood should be touched. And once, when in a time of great necessity the State was about to sacrifice it to assist in filling a nearly exhausted treasury, the people rushed to the rescue, and nobly contributed ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge

... resented the tone and manner of this man's address, but the feeling that he owed his life to him, and that in some way he appeared to be the innocent cause of bringing misfortune on him, induced him to restrain his feelings and obey without question the mandate of his rescuer. Jim Cuttance led the way to a cave in the rugged cliffs, the low entrance to which was concealed by a huge mass of granite. The moment they entered several voices burst forth in abuse of the fisherman ...
— Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines • R.M. Ballantyne

... striking instance of a magnanimous refusal to comply with the bloody mandate of the Parisian court, was that of Viscount D'Orthez,[1146] Governor of Bayonne. This nobleman was not only of a violent and imperious temper, but on other occasions so severe in his treatment of the Protestants of the border city, that the king was obliged ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... stroke is easy!" When they wiped their mouths and went their journey, Throwing him for thanks—"But drought was pleasant." Thus old memories mar the actual triumph; Thus the doing savors of disrelish; Thus achievement lacks a gracious somewhat; O'er-importuned brows becloud the mandate, Carelessness or consciousness—the gesture. For he bears an ancient wrong about him, Sees and knows again those phalanxed faces, Hears, yet one time more, the 'customed prelude— "How shouldst thou of all men, smite, and save us?" Guesses what is like to prove the sequel— "Egypt's flesh-pots—nay, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various


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