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adjective

Mandatory adj.

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

Obligatory; compulsory; required by authority.

(Law) Not optional; not able to be modified or disregarded; as, seven mandatory clauses in the contract.

noun

Mandatory n. Same as Mandatary.

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Etymology of 'Mandatory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mandatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... that Woman Suffrage is no longer a theory to be debated but a condition to be met. The inevitable "votes for women" is a world movement and unless the South squarely faces the issue and takes steps to preserve the State's right the force of public opinion will make it mandatory through a National ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

... the German hypothesis—the one which cost von Falkenhayn his place as Chief of Staff—was based on such a state of exhaustion by the French that a British attack would be mandatory. The initial stage of the German attack was up to expectations in ground gained, but not in prisoners or material taken. The French fell back skilfully before the German onslaught against positions lightly held by the defenders in anticipation ...

— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... followed, in which Turkey was easily successful and gained a small rectification of frontier; then .a few months later Crete was taken over "en depot'' by the Four Powers—-Germany and Austria not participating,—-and Prince George of Greece was appointed their mandatory. In the next year the sultan received the visit of the ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes," should ever be permitted. That kept the door of the Northern States closed against the Southern slavery system. Although such action might be held as mandatory on every State created out of the North-west Territory, it could not be so held in States made out of the Louisiana Purchase. Indeed, the treaty of 1803 promised the inhabitants "the free enjoyment of their liberty; property, ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... his denial of man's ability in spiritual matters Luther quotes numerous Bible-passages, and thoroughly refutes as fallacies a debito ad posse, etc., the arguments drawn by Erasmus from mandatory and conditional passages of Scripture. His own arguments he summarizes as follows: "For if we believe it to be true that God foreknows and preordains everything, also, that He can neither be deceived nor hindered ...

— Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church • Friedrich Bente

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