Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the force of command; mandatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Mandatory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
mandatory
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Examples
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The Staffarda Codex contains a reference to one of the commandatory abbots, Brixianus Taparelli, a scion of the Savigliano branch of the Tapparelli or Taparelli family, who lived in the second half of the sixteenth century: folio 40r is headed ‘Ex libris Fratris Brixiani Tapparelli Religiosi Stapharde’.
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Noticing the two maids standing wide-mouthed in the hallway, she summoned her most commandatory tone, stepped into the hall, half closing the door behind her, and cowed the two handmaidens under her glance.
Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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Ah! Miss Margaret! "began the minister, with a commandatory gesture for her to stop.
A Voice in the Wilderness Grace Livingston Hill 1906
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