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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mandate \Man"date\, noun [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, order, or authorization from a superior official to a subordinate; 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. Hence: (Politics) An authorization to carry out a specific public policy, given by the electorate to their representatives; -- it is considered to be implied by the election of a candidate by a significant margin after that candidate has campaigned with that policy as a prominent element of the campaign platform. [PJC]
3. Hence: Authorization by a multinational body to a nation to administer the government and affairs of a territory, usually a former colony; as, termination of the British mandate in Palestine. [PJC]
4. (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.
5. (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) 2.0 [wn]:
mandate
noun
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 put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves [syn: {mandatory}]
3: the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory
verb
1: assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony"
2: make mandatory; "the new director of the schoolbaord mandated regular tests"
3: assign authority to
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
219 Moby Thesaurus words for "mandate": adverse possession, agency, agentship, ally, alodium, archduchy, archdukedom, assignment, authority, authorization, behest, bench warrant, bid, bidding, body politic, brevet, buffer state, burgage, call on, call the signals, call upon, capias, captive nation, care, caveat, charge, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, claim, colony, command, commission, commissioning, commitment, commonweal, commonwealth, consignment, constitutional referendum, country, county, cure, de facto, de jure, death warrant, declare, decree, delegated authority, delegation, dependency, deputation, derivative title, devolution, devolvement, dictate, direct, direct initiative, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, embassy, empery, empire, empowerment, enjoin, entrusting, entrustment, errand, executorship, exequatur, factorship, facultative referendum, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiat, fiefdom, fieri facias, frankalmoign, free city, free socage, freehold, full power, gavelkind, give an order, give the word, grand duchy, habere facias possessionem, having title to, hold, holding, imperative, indirect initiative, initiative, injunction, instruct, interdict, issue a command, issue a writ, jurisdiction, kingdom, knight service, land, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, legation, license, lieutenancy, mandamus, mandant, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, mandatory injunction, mandatory referendum, mission, mittimus, nation, nationality, nisi prius, notice, notification, occupancy, occupation, office, ordain, order, order about, original title, owning, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plenipotentiary power, polis, polity, possessing, possession, power, power of attorney, power to act, precept, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, principality, principate, process, proclaim, procuration, prohibitory injunction, promulgate, pronounce, property, property rights, proprietary rights, protectorate, province, proxy, puppet government, puppet regime, purview, realm, recall, referendum, regency, regentship, republic, responsibility, rule, satellite, say the word, search warrant, seisin, seneschalty, settlement, socage, sovereign nation, squatting, state, statutory referendum, sublease, sultanate, superpower, task, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, territory, title, toparchia, toparchy, trust, trusteeship, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, vicarious authority, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, word, writ
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