mandativeadj.

1576 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake (new ed.) viii. 144 (margin) Gods will of two sort, Permissiue, and Mandatiue: to speak more sensibly. Will in sufferaunce, & Will in commaundement.

1605 G. Babington Certaine Considerations drawne from Canons of Last Sinod 36 Howsoever then the Metropolitane vpon the Queenes mandative letters, that some orders might be taken, had conference and communication, and..did think such orders as were specified in the advertisements, meete and convenient to be vsed and followed.

1651 J. Rocket Christian Subj. (1658) x. §3. 114 Though servants have not a mandative power to lay their strict injunctions upon their Masters.

1759 I. Ambrose Looking unto Jesus i. §4, in Compl. Wks. iii. 438/2 Sometimes it is taken for that part of the moral law, which is merely mandative and preceptive, without any promise at all.

a1832 J. Bentham Princ. Judicial Procedure xvii, in Wks. (1839) II. vii. 91/2 Mandative decree: compensation-ordering,—Pay [so much] in compensation.

1871 Law Rep.: Privy Council Appeals 3 639 If the Queen's mandative letter preceded the compilation of the Advertisements, and if..they were afterwards enforced as by her authority, her assent must be presumed.

1930 H. Belloc New Cautionary Tales Children 51 I do bequeath, devise and give By Execution Mandative The whole amount of what I've got (It comes to a tremendous lot!).

1946 Amer. School Board Jrnl. Feb. 25/2 In Montana, a ‘uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools’ is the order to the legislature. Likewise from state to state the mandative commission exists, and extensively the identical words have been borrowed from among the older state constitutions.

1992 Los Angeles Times 8 Oct. b4/2 Representatives to be in touch with the people they represent... ‘I'd like to involve the industries and the business people and the residents who are affected...rather than being mandative.’

2012 B. Kingsolver in Iron Mountain Rev. (Emory & Henry Coll., Virginia) Spring 29 Literature is not mandative. It is interrogative. I don't even know who you are, as my reader, so I wouldn't dare presume to tell you what to do.

a1631 J. Downe Treat. True Nature & Definition of Justifying Faith (1635) 104 The word..may be translated imperatiuely, thus, Be thy sinnes pardoned; as if it were in the third person plurall of the Coniunctiue mood (which Diomedes called the Mandatiue mood).

1701 A. J. Compl. Acct. Portugueze Lang. sig. Eeee1/1 (heading) Future or Mandative Mood. Amarás tu: Thou shalt love.

1796 J. B. Gilchrist Gram. Hindoostanee Lang. ii. 132 The potential, optative, concessive, mandative, and other modifications appertaining to the conjunctive, are either intrinsic therein,..or formed as with us by adventitious signs, affixed..to the principal verb.

a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 51/1 [Kinds of Mood] imperative, mandative, conjunctive, subjunctive [etc.].

1971 Lang. Q. Spring ii.–ix. 24/1 The mandative mood is really a mood-grade combination—an emphatic imperative.

1975 B. Jacobbson in Moderna Språk 69 220 Imperatives and mandative subjunctives are closely related in meaning and it is sometimes difficult to keep them apart.

1985 R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. iii. 156 The mandative subjunctive is more characteristic of AmE than of BrE, where it is formal and rather legalistic in style.

1998 M. Hundt N.Z. Eng. Gram., Fact or Fiction? iv. 94 The mandative subjunctive is the older variant and its relatively high frequency in the New Zealand sample could therefore be an example of colonial lag.

2009 G. Leech et al. Change in Contemp. Eng. v. 114 The mandative subjunctive..can be added to the set of alternatives for expressing obligation in subordinate clauses.