elect
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Latin electus, pp. of eligere (“‘to pick out, choose, elect’”) < e (“‘out’”) + legere (“‘to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.’”); see legend.
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛkt
[edit] Noun
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elect (uncountable)
- (uncountable) (theology) In Calvinist theology, those foreordained to Heaven.
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[edit] Verb
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to elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)
- (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
- (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election
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to choose or make decision
to choose in election
[edit] Adjective
elect (not comparable)
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- (used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
- He is the President-elect.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 16
- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.
[edit] Translations
who has been elected
[edit] External links
- elect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- elect in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911