n. A command; an order, precept, or injunction; a commission.n. n. An official command addressed by a superior to an inferior, to control his conduct in a specific manner.n. In early Rom. law (before the doctrines of agency were developed), a trust or commission by which one person, called the mandator, requested another, the mandatarius, to act in his own name and as if for himself in a particular transaction (special mandate), or in all the affairs of the former (general mandate).n. In civil lawn. A contract of bailment in which a thing is transferred by the mandator to the possession of the mandatory, upon an undertaking of the latter to perform gratuitously some service in reference to it: distinguished from a mere deposit for safe keeping.n. A contract of agency by which the mandator confides a matter of business, or his business generally, to an agent called the mandatary.To command.To commit (a sermon, speech, etc.) to memory by repeating (it) aloud to one's self before delivery.