impĕrātīvus

a, um, adj.

impero

I. of or proceeding from a command, commanded: feriae, Macr. S. 1, 16, § 5 sq.: modus, Mart. Cap. 3, § 313, and in the grammarians saep.— Adv.: impĕrātīvē, imperatively, Ulp. Reg. tit. 24, 1.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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