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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mandat, n. Also: -att, -ate, -ait, -et, mendat. [e.m.E. mandate (1552), -et (1546), F. mandat, L. mandātum.]

1. A command, order, injunction. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1067.
Submittand me … Ȝour pleasance and mandate till obeysing Id. Æn. x. Prol. 162.
Quha Thy mandat [Ruthven mandment, 1553 mandmentis] kepys in ane accord Bene ane with Thé c1550-c1580 Art of Music 32 b.
This mandat of the auctor

b. A command from the sovereign to elect or appoint. c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. 52.
So the mater was drifted over (notwithstanding of an mandat sent doun from court to repone him to his charge) 1638 Answere to J. Forbes Peaceable Warning.
You subscrive, and say the mandat royall [for the appointment of ministers] hath expyred long agoe

2. spec. A formal warrant authorizing one person to act on behalf of another in some matter; a commission of attorneyship or proxy. Also letters of mandat.(1) 1521 Aberd. B. Rec. I. xxxv.
Ane mandet to be maid on the straitest forme, … the said procuratory 1525 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 224.
Maister James Dowglas, procuratour for Maister Thomas Forbes … resignit … the said Maister Thomas altarage … efter the tennour of the mandat of resignatioun maid thairvpoun 1531–2 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 53.
Master Hendre Lawder … comperit for the said David be ane mandat in jugment producit red and admittet 1562 St. A. Kirk S. 175. 1574 Grey Friars II. 99.
Nowther be himself nor utheris in his nayme haiffand his mandait c1575 Balfour Pract. 299.
Na men may be procuratour in ony actioun or cause bot he quha has ane special mandat be writ and seill contenand sufficient powar gevin and grantit to him to win or tyne the cause Ib. 275. 1570 Leslie 70.
[Earl Bothwell] as commissioner and be mandat in the name of K. James his maister, contractit … the saide fair lady 1587 Montrose Baillie Ct. MS. 14 b.
The said M^r anserit that he compeirit no wayis as procuratour nor hauing mandat nor curatour bot simpliciter as ane schireff 1587 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 11 June.
His procuratour in that part haifand his mendat for the tyme 1590 Ib. 13 July.
Haifand the power of mandat of ane honorable man James Haye 1591 Ib. 5 April.
Haiffand the power & mandat of Mr Walter Ogiluie 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Actornatus. a1633 Hope Major Pract. I. 142, etc. 1638 Answere to J. Forbes Peaceable Warning.
In authoritatives mandats if hee to whom commission was given [etc.] 1668 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 51.
The counsell grants expresse commissione and mandat to the foirsaid persones that [etc.]. … The which provisione the foirsaids persones ar heirby impowered as said is to … accept 1681 Stair Inst. i. xii.(2) 1567 Reg. Privy S. V. ii. 392/2.
Like as his letteris of mandat … dois proport