Noah Webster
Mandate
MAN'DATE, noun [Latin 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.