| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| mandamus |
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| SYLLABICATION: | man·da·mus |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m n-d  m s |
| NOUN: | Law A writ issued by a superior court ordering a public official or body or a lower court to perform a specified duty. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: man·da·mused, man·da·mus·ing, man·da·mus·es
To serve or compel with such a writ. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin mandmus, we order (used in such a writ), first person pl. present tense of mandre, to order. See man-2 in Appendix I.
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