Usually means: Expressing necessity or obligation grammatically.
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  3. mandative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (mandative)

adjective:  Indicates the quality of being a command, or being related to the command.
adjective:  (grammar, not comparable) Noting the imperative use of the subjunctive, as in "I insist that he leave immediately".

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