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Imperative

Expressive of command containing positive command authoritatively or absolutely directive commanding authoritative as

[derived through the Fr. amiral, from Amir al Bahir, Arab., commander of the sea or fleet], an officer having high command

Edicts, which was made perpetual by Salvius Julianus, at the command of the Emperor Hadrian, many years later. (5) The Codes

the name of a state or other competent legal authority, commanding addressee to do or refrain from doing some specified act,

The chief commander of an army especially the commander in chief of an

Precept, a rule authoritatively given; a mandate: (1) A command in writing by a justice of the peace or other

to exercise public power, to require obedience to their lawful commands, and to command or act in the public name, Black's

[fr. mandatarius, Lat.], he to whom a mandate, charge, or commandment is given; also he that obtains a benefice by mandamus.

Mandavi ballivo (I have commanded the bailiff). If a bailiff of a liberty have the

'The evil which will probably be incurred in case a command be disobeyed, or (to use an equivalent expression) in case