mandant, a. and n.
(ˈmændənt)
Also 7 -ent.
[ad. L. mandant-em, pres. pple. of mandāre to command, to send forth: see mandate.]
† A. adj. Phys. Of an organ (chiefly in member mandant = mod.L. membrum mandans): That is the source of impulse; often said of the brain. Obs.
| 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. xvii. 63 b, The fourth intentyon which is to comforte the membre mandant [L. membrum mandans] that is to say, from which the mattier commeth by deriuation. 1544 T. Phaer Regim. Life (1553) I v b, They are all deriued from the member mandant, that is to saye, the brayne. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. (1653) 190 There are many that drink without the moving of Transglutition; but that which they drink descends as if it were poured into a tankard. In this case they need no mandent member. 1670 Maynwaring Physician's Repos. 32 Neither the nutritive juyces are..conveighed, nor excrementitious parts separated..but..regurgitate upon the mandant viscera. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xv. 528 Care must be taken of the Head as the part Mandant. |
B. n. Law. = mandator.
| 1681 Visct. Stair Instit. i. xii. (1693) 108 A Desire, Warrand, or Order, upon the part of the Mandant to the Mandatar. a 1768 Erskine Instit. iii. iii. §31 (1773) II. 457 Mandate,..where it signifies a mutual contract, includes not only the act of the mandant who employs, but the acceptance of the mandatary. 1818 Colebrooke Obligations 120 If..a mandate be given for the benefit of the mandant himself or of a third party. 1842 M{supc}Glashan Sheriff Crts. Scotl. §589. 154 A mandant may revoke his mandate at pleasure. 1875 Poste Gaius iii. Comm. (ed. 2) 430 Another case in which a guarantor and guarantee stand in the relation of mandant and mandatary is delegatio. |