Definition of mandate

• n. - An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.