elect

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Antonyms 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Related terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Adjective 1.5.1 Translations 1.5.2 External links

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[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

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elect (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) (theology) In Calvinist theology, those foreordained to Heaven.

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• reprobate

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to elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)

1. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
2. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election

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• election
• elective
• elite
• select
• selection
• selective

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elect (not comparable)

1. (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.

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[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