mandate

mandate is a Noun

Definition:

[1] An official or authoritative command; 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] 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.

[3] A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine.