† menˈdation Obs. rare—1.
[app. for mandation (not found in this sense, but cf. mandatary, mandate 2 b).]
The granting of papal mandates.
| 1561 Godly Q. Hester (1873) 24 And what by mendation, and dyspensation, they gat the nomynation, of euery good benefyce. |