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mandatory (adj.)
1570s, "of the nature of a mandate," from Late Latin
mandatorius
"pertaining to a mandator," from Latin
mandatus
, past participle of
mandare
(see
mandate
(n.)). Sense of "obligatory because commanded" is from 1818.
