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adjective
1.
authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
2.
pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing a command.
3.
Law. permitting no option; not to be disregarded or modified: a mandatory clause.
4.
having received a mandate, as a nation.
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Mandatorily
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
mandatory
1570s, "of the nature of a mandate," from L.L. mandatorius "pertaining to a mandator," from mandatus, pp. of mandare (see mandate (n.)). Sense of "obligatory because commanded" is from 1818.
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