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Mandatary

One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.

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Receiver 76% connected

One who takes or receives in any manner.

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Recipient 76% connected

A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a stil…

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Mandate 74% connected

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

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Mandate 74% connected

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

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Mandatory 92% connected

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

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Advowson noun · 78% connection

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector o…

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Antipope noun · 78% connection

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avi…

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Behest noun · 78% connection

That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.

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Charge verb · 78% connection

An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.

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Command noun · 78% connection

An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.

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Commandment noun · 78% connection

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

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Concordat noun · 78% connection

An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are conc…

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Countermand verb · 78% connection

To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order fo…

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Donative noun · 78% connection

A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by…

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Donee noun · 78% connection

Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…

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Enjoin verb · 78% connection

To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

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Esnecy noun · 78% connection

A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.

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Firman noun · 78% connection

In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given f…

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Forbid verb · 78% connection

To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.

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Imperative adjective · 78% connection

Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative…

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Impetration noun · 78% connection

The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the re…

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Injunction noun · 78% connection

That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.

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Institute verb · 78% connection

To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

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