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Mandate vs Countermand - What's the difference?

mandate | countermand |

As verbs the difference between mandate and countermand

is that mandate is while countermand is to revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.

As a noun countermand is

an order to the contrary of a previous one.

mandate

Noun

(en noun)
  • An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
  • Verb

    (mandat)
  • to authorize
  • to make mandatory
  • Derived terms

    * mandatary * mandator * mandatory

    countermand

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
  • to countermand an order for goods
  • To recall a person or unit with such an order.
  • To prohibit; to forbid.
  • * Harvey
  • Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
  • To oppose; to revoke the command of.
  • * Hooker
  • For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An order to the contrary of a previous one.