Meanings (ES + gloss)
comandamiento (disused) • mandato
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances an…
Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither ma…
comandamiento (disused) • mando
The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mandar • ordenar • preceptuar
To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance.
Last June Illinois passed a bill requiring the state to trace sexual partners, […] but mandating the department to preserve the confidentiality of reports.