Is mandation a valid word? If it is, then what are its proper uses?
I have heard people using this as a synonym to mandate; however, I am not exactly sure that it is a valid word.
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The OED has a reference to it, though they clearly state that it is rare. But far from being a neologism the OED example is from1867.
Sc. Obs. rare.
Etymology: f. mandate v.: see ‑ation.
The action of committing a speech, etc., to memory.
1867 J. Macfarlane Mem. T. Archer i. 15 — Some of the most acceptable ministers of the Gospel have been known to regard ‘mandation’ as a process of slow murder.
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1+1 nice finding. Mandation:https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=mandation&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmandation%3B%2Cc0 – Jul 31 '15 at 08:59
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2"mandation" appears today, 16-July-2021, in a statement by an NHS "boss" (quoted by the Guardian in the Editions app) with the meaning of "compulsion" as applied to vaccinations. Perhaps the word is due for a new lease of life. – mikemay Jun 16 '21 at 06:52
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It’s a horrible bastardised word made up by people when they want to turn a noun to a verb “to mandate” and then create actions from that. Why not us ‘compulsion’in the context of a requirement??
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1Because a mandate is not the same thing as a compulsion? "I have a compulsion to spend money" does not mean "I have a mandate to spend money." – Peter Shor Feb 20 '22 at 14:35
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