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- Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.
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as in: a legal mandate Define
an instruction that must be followed; or to command
as in: the election gave her a mandate
Define
power given to someone to do something -- especially a government to implement policies based on an electoral victory
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