Meaning of mandātum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. mandate, command, commandment, commission, charge, order to do something, law
   declension-2
2. news, notice
   Medieval-Latin, declension-2
3. maundy (ceremony of washing the feet)
   Medieval-Latin, declension-2

Equivalents

Examples

“Ipse deum tibi mē clārō dēmittit Olympō rēgnātor, caelum ac terrās quī nūmine torquet; ipse haec ferre iubet celerīs mandāta per aurās.” “The Ruler of the Gods himself – who by his divine will sways heaven and earth – sent me from Olympus to you; he himself bid me to convey these orders by way of the swift-flowing winds.””

(Jupiter has sent Mercury to confront Aeneas in Carthage.)

“4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:13”

For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,)

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