"Dee D. Flint" wrote:

Also please let me know which
dictionary you are using. (snip)


Princeton University's WordNet...

http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

Click on "Use WordNet Online," enter "mandate," and scroll down to the
verbs.


(snip) I've checked several and
for the verb meaning your number
2 does not appear.


Then you should perhaps find a better dictionary. WordNet is an online
lexical (dictionary) reference system developed by the Cognitive Science
Laboratory at Princeton University. The project was funded in part by a
grant from the National Science Foundation and has been reviewed positively
by linguistics researchers at MIT, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, and numerous
other universities.


Language is a tool that must be used
correctly to convey the intended
meaning. One should never operate
on the basis that "you know what I
mean" as sooner or later that gets a
person in trouble.


Thanks for the lecture, Dee. However, I used the correct word for the
intended meaning.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/