·noun An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
II. Mandate ·noun A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
III. Mandate ·noun 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.