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Mandatary [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

2. MAN'DATE, noun [Latin mando, to command.]

3. A command; an order, precept or injunction; a commission.

4. This dream all powerful Juno sends; I bear

5. Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear.

6. 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.

Mandatary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.

2. One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.