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(obsolete) Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded. quotations
those Imperate acts before spoken of wherein we see the immediate empire of the Soul.
a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677