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Mandatary

MAN'DATARY 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. 2. In canon...

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MAN'DATARY

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.

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.

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