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/ɪlˈɛktəd/ /ɪlˈɛktɪd/ Listen

verb

Elect v. t. (past & past part. elected; pres. part. electing)

To pick out; to select; to choose. "The deputy elected by the Lord."

To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.

(Theol.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.

Synonyms: To choose; prefer; select. See Choose.

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"Elected" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the nuptial journey, and all arrangements for the wedding of the distinguished pair had been completed. And now—"Just as if she mighter bin any tramp's cur," as Bates feelingly put it—Desdemona had elected to stay away and to remain away. And the news from Nuthill showed that—"That there plaguy great wolfhound" was also on ...

— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson

... art of judgment is but the reduction of propositions to principles in a middle term. The principles to be agreed by all and exempted from argument; the middle term to be elected at the liberty of every man's invention; the reduction to be of two kinds, direct and inverted: the one when the proposition is reduced to the principle, which they term a probation ostensive; the other, when the contradictory of the proposition is reduced to the contradictory of the principle, ...

— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon

... established there the capital of United Italy, the Vatican had forbidden faithful Catholics to take part, either as electors or as candidates, in any of the national elections, the fiction being that, were they to go to the polls or to be elected to the Chamber of Deputies, they would thereby recognise the Royal Government which had destroyed the temporal power of the Pope. Then what would become of that other fiction—the Pope's prisonership in the Vatican—which ...

— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro

... officers of these departments of the government, only the members of one branch of the law-making power were elected by the people. The other branch was composed of a small number of men, called a council; but they were appointed by the king and subject to his control, as was also the governor, who had the power of an absolute negative or veto to any proposed law. And laws ...

— The Government Class Book • Andrew W. Young

... the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy. The officials who ruled it, and got all the graft, had to be elected first; and so there were two rival sets of grafters, known as political parties, and the one got the office which bought the most votes. Now and then, the election was very close, and that was the time the poor man came in. In the stockyards this was only in national ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

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