mancipation 
rights and p 
3605 
mandator 
lation to Immati 
fives arising fmm 
paternal authority, i-t.-. riir innnaliiy consisted in a de- 
claration of purchase before five witnesses, followed by 
the weighing out, by an officer with brazen scales, of the 
real or figurative purchase-money. This form of sale was 
abolished by Justinian. 
2t. The act of mancipation or enslaving; sla- mandant (raan'dant),. [< L. mandan(t-)s, ppr. * in trench hut., one of the circulating notes 
very; involuntary servitude. ' mandare, command: see mand 2 , mandate.] 3 1 .?* 1 we, 1 " 6 issued by_the government about 
They who fall away after they were once enlightened A man ' llltor - Im l>- Viet. 
mandamus. 
Her officers . 
do their duty. 
t. [<f 
to; serve with 
were mandamtued to compel them to 
X. A. Ken., CXXX1X. 135. 
In Fri-Mi-li law, a grant of power or authority; 
a power of attorney. 
Mandatt or grants In expectancy. 
llallmn, Middle Ages, II. 242. 
nce engene 
in baptism, ... if it he Into a contradictory state of sin mandarin (man-da-ren or man da-rin), . and 
mp. 
-da 
, 
ami niaiiri/xttion, . . . then " there remains nothing but a 
fearful execution of judgment." 
, . 
it. [Formerly also (as a noun) mandarine; = F. 
mandarin, a mandarin (mandarine, a manda- 
1796 on the security of the national domains, 
called mandata territorial/*, to take the place 
of the abrogated assignats, and which soon be- 
came as worthless as the latter. 
mancipatory(iiiaii'8i-pa-to-ri),a. [Emancipate 
+ -ory,] In limn, niitiq., pertaining to or con- 
of mancipation or ceremonial ~'~ 
, , - -------- ....... ---- - ..... 
rin oran g ei a tangerine), = It. mandarino = Sp mandatary (mau'da-ta-ri), M. ; pi. mandataries 
mandarin, < Pg. mandarin (with final -m for (-nz). [= F. mandatdire = Sp. Pg. It. manda- 
' " * ,..--. 
It was this practice of every day life In private 
actions that Servius adopted as the basi ' ' 
hrry conveyance. 
i , / i\ rsir-r\ J *"** J vinu^O^J vjuiV3ia.i. <j-l v II v*. 
manciple (man si-pi), n. [< ME. manciple, maun- military, who wears a button. (See button, 3.) 
ctple, < Or- . mannpe, a steward, purveyor, < L. The Chinese equivalent is kwan, which means 
mumriiH (iiianrip-), a purchaser, renter, farmer, simply ' public servant." 
contractor, factor, etc.: see maneipate. 
I is unoriginal, as in principle, participle.'] 
steward ; a caterer or purveyor,*particulariy of 
an English college or inn of court. 
A gentll tnauiiciplt was ther of a temple, 
Of which achatours mighten take exemple, 
For to be wyse in bying of vitaille. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 667. 
There are without the city[Peqnin] . . 
thousand sepulchers of mandarines (Justices of Peace) 
twenty-four 
attorney. Specifically (a) A person to whom the Pope 
has by his prerogative given a mandate or order for his 
benefice. (6) In law, one who is authorized and under- 
takes, without a recompense, to do some act for another 
In respect to the thing bailed to him. See mandate, 4. 
Also mandatory. 
mandate (man 'dat), n. [=F. mandat = Rp. Pg. 
It. mandato, < L. mandatum, a charge, order, 
command, commission, injunction, neut. of 
mandatus, pp. of mandare, commit to one's 
it b their little gilded chappels. 
S. Clarke, Oeograph. Descrip. (1071X p. 39. 
2. [cop.] The fora of Chinese spoken (with 
slight variations) in the northern, central, and 
western provinces of China, as well as Man- charge, order, command, commission, lit. put 
, .. ' : , f 8 , churia, and by officials and educated persons all into one's hands, < manus, hand, + dare, put : 
lowed %XjSfig5 l SSS&3?l, o2* 77 the e P' re - "^distinguished from the local see ctofci Cf . command, commend, demand, re- 
forth a Manciple. Lamb, Oxford In Vacation, dialects spoken chiefly in the southern pro- mand. See maundy, an older form of man- 
vinces, and from the book-language, which ap- date.] 1. A command; an order, precept, or 
peals only to the eye. 3. Inomith., the man- : 
mancona bark (man-ko'nft bark). See bark*. 
mancus (mang'kus), n. [A'S. mancus, also man- 
ecu, iiidiiaeiiH (= OLG. mancus = OHG. man- 
cusa, manchusa); of doubtful origin.] An An- 
glo-Saxon money of account employed in Eng- 
land from the ninth century onward. It was 
equivalent to 30 pence, or one eighth of the 
pound. 
Queen >Elfgyfer, A. B. 1012, bequeathed two hundred 
mancusset of gold to a minster for the shrine there. 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. I. 358, note. 
mand't, . See maundi. 
mand'-'t, r. t. [Early mod. E. also maund; < ME. 
m K n den, < OF. mander, < L. mandare, command. 
Cf. mandate, etc., command, commend, etc.] To 
command. 
The king maunded him her strayght to marry, 
And for killyng her brother he must dye. 
Id Part of Frames and Caxnndra, Iv. 2. (HaUimll.) 
mand 3 t, . [By apheresis from demand.] A de- 
mand. 
The emperour, with wordes myld, 
Askyd a mand of the chyld. 
MS. Ashmole 61, f. 87. (HalKiaeU.) 
mand 4 (mand), . [< Hind, mandod, mandud, 
manrrd.] A species of grass. See JEleusine. 
Mandaean (man-de'an), . and a. [< NL. Man- 
dteus, < Mandiean filandd, knowledge, gnosis.] 
I. n. 1. One of a very ancient religious body, 
still found, though its members are few, in the 
southern part of Babylonia. The religion of the 
Mandrcans is a kind of Gnosticism, retaining many Jewish 
and Parsee elements. They worship as divine beings a 
number of personifications, especially of the attributes or 
Mandarin Duck (Aix ealtricitlata}. 
darin duck (which see, under duck?). 4. A 
piece of mandarin porcelain. 5. A coal-tar 
color used in dyeing, produced from beta-naph- 
thol. It dyes a bright reddish-orange shade. 
Also called tropccolin and orange A'o. 2. 
n. a. Pertaining or suitable to a mandarin 
or to mandarins ; nence, of exalted character 
or quality; superior; noble; fine. Mandarin 
dialect, language. Seel., 2. Mandarin orange See 
orange. Mandarin porcelain, decorative porcelain 
thought to be of Japanese origin, but sometimes appa- 
rently of Chinese make and painting, having as a part of 
its decoration figures of Chinese officials In their cere- 
monial dress. Vases of this character are decorated In 
brilliant colors. Mandarin sleeve, a loose and wide 
sleeve, supposed to be copied from the sleeves of the silk 
gowns of Chinese gentlemen. Mandarin vases. 
injunction; a commission. 
I am commanded home. Get you away ; 
I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate, 
And will return to Venice. Shale., Othello, iv. 1. 270. 
This dream all-powerful Juno sends ; I bear 
Her mighty mandate!, and her words you hear. 
Dryden, Xneld, vll. 583. 
Mandates for deposing sovereigns were sealed with the 
signet of "the fisherman." Burke, Rev. in France. 
This flower border encloses an autograph latin mandate 
written and signed "propria manu" by "J. Hereforden" 
himself; which mandate testifies that the volume of the 
book is prepared nnd written by his "dllectus famulus" 
Swithun Butterfleld, and directs that 8. B. shall have the 
custody of It during his natural life. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VHI. 2. 
Hence 2. An official command addressed by 
a superior to an inferior, to control his conduct 
in a specific manner. Specifically -(a) In Rom. law, 
an order or decree directed by the emperor to governors of 
provinces. (6) In canon late, a papal rescript commanding 
a bishop or other ecclesiastical patron to put the person 
therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice 
under his patronage, (c) In early Eny. law, a royal com- 
mand addressed to a Judge or court to control the disposi- 
tion of a suit, (d) In mad. law procedure, a Judicial com- 
mand, order, precept, or writ ; more specifically, the docu- 
ment promulgated upon the decision of an appeal or writ 
of error, as by the Supreme Court of the I'nited States, di- 
recting what shall be done In the court below ; also, in some 
of the States, the writ elsewhere known, as at common law, 
by the name of mandamus (which see). In this sense man- 
date usually, but not always necessarily, implies that the 
direction is given In writing. 
3. In early Bom. laic (before the doctrines of 
agency were developed), a trust or commission 
by which one person, called the mandator, re- 
quested another, the matidatarins, to act in his 
own name and as if for himself in a particular 
See 
mandarin porcelain. 
M^hr^nToT'^Jo^. mandarin (man-da-ren' or man'da-rin), v. t. 
2. The dialect of Aramaic 'in which the four t< w """''" - in,j.(withref. to mandarin orange).] 
sacred books of the Mandajans are written. In dyeing, to give an orange-color to, as silk of the former (general mandate). Themandatarius 
II. n. Pertaining to the Mandajans or to Man- or other stuffs made of animal fiber, not by was the only one recognized as having legal rights and re- 
draism means of a solution of coloring matter, but by ponsibilities as toward third persons in the transactions 
the action of dilute nitric acid. The orange- !|! VO i lved As between h ''" and the mandator, however, 
color is produced by a partial decomposition nify aWmsn'os^s''^^^^^^^ 
of the surface of the fiber by the acid. 4. In civil law (a) A contract of bailment in 
mandarmate (man-da-re nat or man'da-rin- which a thing is transferred by the mandator to 
Also Mi'lliliniil. 
Mandaeism (man-de'izm), . [< Mad(e(an) + 
-inm.] The religious system of the Mandteans. 
x\.lNO iut Hf (f( /*> tit, ., m\_ 'jjjf ~~ -- . .....p, ,. < i K n.-j v i * i 1 1 tjj 1111 i mi 1 11 fi i < 'i LV 
mandamus (man-da'mus), n. [<L. mandamus, '.'." .y "'"' + -ate>-\ 1. 1 he office or the possession of the mandatary, upon an under- 
we command (the first word in the writ in the autaont y of a mandarin. 2. The whole body taking of the latter to perform gratuitously some 
orig.L. form), 1st pers.pl. ind.pres. of mundare, ffSSiTi*' "?. andarms , collectively. 3. The service in reference to it : distinguished from a 
.....,. i. I.,. -i T_ i ti- _. risdiction or district of n inaminriTi mere deposit for safe keeping. (6) A contract 
of agency by which the mandator confides a 
matter of business, or his business generally, 
to an agent called the mandatary, if the author- 
ity or appointment be In writing, the mandate is also called 
procuration. Mandatary qualification exists where a per- 
son induces another to repose credit in a third person ; 
It answers somewhat to our modern letter of credit. 
. . , . . . . , 
command: see mandate.] In law, a writ issuing jurisdiction or district of a mandarin. 
from a superior court, directed to an inferior 
court, an officer, a corporation, or other body, 
requiring the person or persons addressed to 
do some act therein specified, as being within 
their office and duty, as to admit or restore a 
person to an office or franchise, or to deliver 
papers, affix a seal to a paper, < tc. 
The Emperor and the great tribunals . . . would call 
them to account for not having sooner been aware of 
what was passing in their Mandarinata. 
Hue, Journey through the Chinese Empire (trans.), I. 68. 
The idea of organizing a sort of intellectual mandarin- 
ate In France was first conceived by Colbert. 
Harper-t M ag., LXX VI 1 1. 501. 
Its use is mandariness (man-da-ren'es or man'da-rin- mandate-bread (man 'daf-bred), M. The bread 
inving an Interest in h'r 1>e i ra j m ps ). " [( mandarin -f- -ess.] A female man- distributed to the poor on Maundy Thursday, 
when effectual relief against its n'eglcct'camfo't' b^had ft < lari "- Lamb. Also called mwn(ty-tom,- 
the course of an ordinary action. mandarinic (man-da-rm'ik), a. [< mandarin Mandate Thursday (man dat therz da). Same 
During the short restoration of Henry VI. in 1470, . + -""] Of. pertaining to, or befitting a man- AsMaitiidyThurxday (which see.undermfli/ixfy). 
a lord mayor was appointed by royal mandamw. darin. mandator (man-da tor), . [< L. mandator, one 
Stubbi, Const. Hist., 488. mandarinism (man-da-ren'izm or man'da-rin- wno gives a charge"or command, < mandare, 
Alternative mandamus, a mandamus in which the izm), w. [< mandarin + -ism.] The character Charge, command : see maud"-, mandate.] 
Cotnnlrllltl tl) ll(l th> uttlil'iHiill not la ..m>nl<ul wttli n.. A 1_ - ., - . 1: . 
or customs of mandarins ; government by man- 
darins. 
director. 
1. A 
iniinded show eause to the court why not. Peremptory 
mandamus, a mandamus in wbid'i the i-mnmand is ab- 
solute. It usually follows an alternative writ if adequate 
cruise lie not shown. 
22T 
The whole Chinese code, under a systematic mandarin- 
inn, is pervaded even by the principle of self-aeeusation 
for all. Lieber. 
A person is said to be a client to his advocate, but a 
master and mandator to his proctor. Ayli/e, Farergon. 
2. In laic: (a) A bailor of goods, (b) The per- 
son who delegates another to perform a man- 
