单词 | mandated |
释义 | mandatedadj.ΚΠ 1826 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Feb. 175/1 He had not..been many weeks in his own pulpit, when his well-mandated Tams, with all their froth, ran out. 1843 G. Sinclair Statem. Reasons for Declining to encourage Erection Schismatical Church 12 They feel an insuperable aversion to written discourses, having, from time immemorial, been used to extemporaneous or mandated addresses from the pulpit. 1867 J. Macfarlane Mem. T. Archer iii. 41 He got quit of the terror of the pulpit, composition became easier, slavish preaching from mandated notes he discontinued, and then he fell..into the habit of first sketching, and then mentally filling up his subject. 2. Of a territory: assigned to the authority or protection of a particular power under a mandate (mandate n. 3) of the League of Nations. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [adjective] > mandated mandated1919 1919 J. M. Keynes Econ. Consequences Peace 248 The Mandated States should be compelled to adhere to this Union for ten years. 1922 Weekly Disp. 5 Nov. 8 We were authorised to raise local native forces to protect the mandated area. 1958 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Method in Social Anthropol. i. iii. 90 Cadets who are selected for the administration of the Mandated Territory are sent to the territory for one or two years to make acquaintance with the kind of life and work they will have. 1991 K. Maguire Politics in S. Afr. iii. 54 The UN was to take over responsibility for former mandated territories. 3. Of a person, organization, political party, etc.: commissioned, authorized, or delegated; having a mandate (mandate n. 2) from an electorate, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > [adjective] > authorized > by a mandate mandated1921 1921 Times 2 May 7/4 The Delegation, such as it is to-day, since Zaghlul is now the sole remaining original mandated member, met yesterday and decided not to support the Cabinet. 1937 Financial Times 15 July 7/6 By subsequent voting of 2,949, or barely 55 per cent. of the mandated delegates, the Congress approved of the continued presence of the Socialist Ministers. 1984 J. Dearlove & P. Saunders Introd. Brit. Polit. (1988) (BNC) 93 One doctrinaire and mandated government has been replaced by another with scant regard to appeals to the middle ground of public opinion. 1987 J. Davis Libyan Polit. (BNC) 142 True democracy consists in the exercise of personal sovereignty directly, or through rigidly mandated delegates. 1991 D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland i. 37 The ‘burnouts’..posed a threat to the hegemony of parents, teachers, and other mandated ‘agents of socialization’ in Bergenfield. 4. Ordered, obligatory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > ordaining, prescribing, or appointing > ordained, prescribed, or appointed setc1050 assignedc1374 ordaineda1382 peremptor1397 prescriptc1460 constitute1483 prescribedc1503 assigneea1513 stinteda1513 peremptory1513 pointed1523 appointed1535 state1581 statuted1606 stated1644 instituted1647 constituted1651 indictive1656 indicteda1706 issued1760 prescriptive1765 ordered1780 mandated1944 1944 Music Educators Jrnl. 31 17/1 The gradual encroachment of mandated subjects, together with the tendency towards the six-period school day, mitigate against the student electing music. 1967 National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 13 Mr. Reagan must raise the money to pay off that deficit and to pay for mandated new programs. 1994 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. a21/2 The bewildering feature of political correctness is the mandated replacement of formerly unexceptionable terms by new ones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1826 |
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