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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mandatory" Quotes from Famous Books

... strongly as that? I will remind you of this. The true basis of prayer is sympathy, oneness of purpose. Prayer is not extracting favours from a reluctant God. It is not passing a check in a bank window for money. That is mandatory. The roots of prayer lie down in oneness of purpose. God up yonder, His Victor-Son by His side, and a man down here, in such sympathetic touch that God can think His thoughts over in this man's mind, and have His desires repeated upon the earth as ...

— Quiet Talks on Prayer • S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

... benevolent or wise ideas of any individual is needed for that. Mr. Fenton has absolute power—power, therefore, to give or withhold favors as he may choose. Enlightened legislation would deprive him and other wardens of absolute power, and make it mandatory to treat prisoners as he is ...

— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne

... the sooner the ship floats free the better. Christian Scientists, being men and women, can not continue to grow if fettered with an Index Expurgatorius and mandatory edicts and encyclicals. That which binds and manacles ...

— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

... received a letter advising him that an application for use of the water appropriated to Perro Creek ranch had been made by a man of the name of Rodriguez, of Rosita, under an old statute long forgotten. This law was mandatory upon the Land and Water Board. It required the latter to cancel rights and to reappropriate water elsewhere to the amount in excess of what a canal actually carried, or what a canal had failed to carry for five successive years if it were not shown within ninety ...

— The Iron Furrow • George C. Shedd

... in the pen to insure a black line. Gray lines, although full and continuous, are very apt to be ragged and broken in the reproduction. Aside from this first condition there are few others which are really mandatory. A drawing made with vigorous, well-defined lines and rather open in treatment will, as a rule, make ...

— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 7, - July, 1895 • Various

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