Metropolitan vs Mandatory - What's the difference?
metropolitan | mandatory |
(Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 514:
*:Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.
The inhabitant of a metropolis.
(Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
* 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
Of, being or relating to a mandate.
(dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
As nouns the difference between metropolitan and mandatory
is that metropolitan is (christianity) a bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop while mandatory is (dated|rare) a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.As adjectives the difference between metropolitan and mandatory
is that metropolitan is (christianity) pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan while mandatory is obligatory; required or commanded by authority.metropolitan
English
(wikipedia metropolitan)Alternative forms
* metropolitan bishopNoun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)mandatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Attendance at a school is usually mandatory .
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
- Mandatory Palestine
Synonyms
* compulsory * obligatoryAntonyms
* (obligatory) optional * (obligatory) electiveDerived terms
* mandatorinessNoun
(mandatories)External links
* * *Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary*
The Oxford English Dictionary
