Elect
[ɪ'lekt] or [ɪ'lɛkt]
Definition
(verb.) choose; 'I elected to have my funds deposited automatically'.
(verb.) select by a vote for an office or membership; 'We elected him chairman of the board'.
(adj.) selected as the best; 'an elect circle of artists'; 'elite colleges' .
(adj.) elected but not yet installed in office; 'the president elect' .
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Definition
(a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
(a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.
(a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.
(n.) One chosen or set apart.
(n.) Those who are chosen for salvation.
(v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.
(v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.
(v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Choose, select, cull, pick, pick out, make choice of.
a. Chosen, selected, picked, choice.
Typist: Tabitha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Elite, choice, accepted, chosen
ANT:Rejected, reprobate
Checker: Roy
Definition
v.t. to choose out: to select for any office or purpose: to select by vote.—adj. chosen: taken by preference from among others: chosen for an office but not yet in it (almost always after the noun as 'consul elect').—n. one chosen or set apart.—n. Elec′tion the act of electing or choosing: the public choice of a person for office usually by the votes of a constituent body: freewill: (theol.) the exercise of God's sovereign will in the predetermination of certain persons to salvation: (B.) those who are elected.—v.i. Electioneer′ to labour to secure the election of a candidate.—n. Electioneer′er.—n. and adj. Electioneer′ing the soliciting of votes and other business of an election.—adj. Elect′ive pertaining to dependent on or exerting the power of choice.—adv. Elect′ively.—ns. Electiv′ity; Elect′or one who elects: one who has a vote at an election: the title formerly belonging to those princes and archbishops of the German Empire who had the right to elect the Emperor:—fem. Elect′ress Elect′oress.—adjs. Elect′oral Electō′rial pertaining to elections or to electors: consisting of electors.—ns. Elect′orate the dignity or the territory of an elector: the body of electors; Elect′orship.—The elect (theol.) those chosen by God for salvation.
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Examples
- You must choose me for your churchwarden, Mr. Helstone, the next time you elect new ones. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the life of thought, of the spirit, she was one of the elect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They get the votes, enough to elect them to office. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One is of an elect tribe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And in the midst of their paroxysms, they glanced with deference at the four English strangers, the elect. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You are absolutely in my power to do with as I wish--I may kill you, or I may free you, and should I elect to kill you, none would be the wiser. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The person or entity that provided you with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a refund. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The next Pope elected, Clement V, was a Frenchman, the choice of King Philip of France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A Chicago regiment, the 19th infantry, had elected a very young man to the colonelcy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You'd never get elected, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Mr. Zachariah Chandler was the candidate of the Whigs for the office of Mayor, and was elected, although the city was then reckoned democratic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These had elected their officers from highest to lowest and were accepted with their organizations as they were, except in two instances. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The day after his return, he was elected by the legislature of Pennsylvania a delegate to Congress. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Four years later the Republican party was successful in electing its candidate to the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The initiative and referendum will help: they are a method of voting on definite issues instead of electing an administration in bulk. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If the collector himself should become bankrupt, the parish which elects him must answer for his conduct to the receiver-general of the election. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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