elect
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin electus, past participle of eligere (“to pick out, choose, elect”), from e- (“out”) + legere (“to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.”); see legend.
Cognate to eclectic, which is via Ancient Greek rather than Latin, hence prefix ἐκ (ek), rather than e- (from ex).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
elect (uncountable)
- (uncountable) (theology) In Calvinist theology, those foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies: someone chosen by God for salvation
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Verb [edit]
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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Translations [edit]
to choose or make decision
to choose in election
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Adjective [edit]
elect (not comparable)
- (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.
Translations [edit]
who has been elected
External links [edit]
- elect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- elect in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
