The Doug Payne entity posted thusly:

It's also a verb.

mandate (mæn'deIt), v. [f. L. manda¯t-, ppl. stem of manda¯re to enjoin,
command.]

And of course, this being Usenet, one might also point out that any
noun can be verbed, and any verb can be nouned.

Forte Agent complained about 'verbed', I'm adding it to it's
dictionary'. :-)