mand at (monda)

[F.: see mandate.] 1. In French law, a grant of power or authority; a power of attorney. Mandats or grants in expectancy. Hallam, Middle Ages, II. 242. 2. In French hist., one of the circulating notes which were i ued by the government about 1796 on the security of the national domains, called mandats territoriaux, to take the place of the abrogated a ignats, and which soon be came as worthle as the latter. a mand a IMG:content-0167.jpg:[ocr errors] mandarin, rin orange, a tangerine), = It. man dari no = Sp. mandarin, simply public servant.' There are without the city [Pequin)... twenty-four you sand sepulchers of mandarines (Justices of Peace) with their little gilded chappels. S. Clarke , Geograph. Descrip. (1671), p. 39. 2. [ cap.] The form of Chinese spoken (with slight variations) in the northern, central, and western provinces of China, as well as Manchuria, and by officials and educated persons all over the empire, as distinguished from the local dialects spoken chiefly in the southern provinces, and from the book-language, which appeals only to the eye.-3. In ornith., the man Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ). darin duck (which see, under duck2 ).-4. A piece of mandarin porcelain.-5. A coal-tar mand3t, n. [By apheresis from demand .] A decolor used in dyeing, produced from beta-naph mand. The emperour, with wordes myld, Askyd a mand of the chyld. MS . Ashmole 61, f. 87. ( Hall i well .) mand4 (mand), n. [ man doā , manduā, manrvā.] A species of gra . See Eleusine. Mandæan (man-de'an), n. and a. [NL. Man dœus , Mandā , knowledge, gnosis.] I. n. 1. One of a very ancient religious body, still found, though its members are few, in the southern part of Babylonia. The religion of the Mandæans is a kind of Gnosticism, retaining many Jewish and Parsee elements. They worship as divine beings a number of personifications, especially of the attributes or names of God. Also called Mendaites , Nasoreans , and Sa bians , and, by a misunderstanding, Christians of St. John. 2. The dialect of Aramaic in which the four sacred books of the Mandæans are written. II. a. Pertaining to the Mandæans or to Man dæism. Also Mendæan .