Mandate vs Countermand - What's the difference?
mandate | countermand |
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
to authorize
to make mandatory
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
To recall a person or unit with such an order.
To prohibit; to forbid.
* Harvey
To oppose; to revoke the command of.
* Hooker
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
English
(wikipedia mandate)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(mandat)Derived terms
* mandatary * mandator * mandatoryExternal links
* * ----countermand
English
Verb
(en verb)- to countermand an order for goods
- Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
- For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.