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/ɪlˈɛkt/ Listen

verb

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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

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

noun

Elect n.

1.

One chosen or set apart. "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth."

2.

pl. (Theol.) Those who are chosen for salvation. "Shall not God avenge his won elect?"

adjective

Elect adj.

1.

Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more. "Colors quaint elect."

2.

(Theol.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life. "The elect angels."

3.

Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

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Etymology of 'Elect'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Elect" Quotes from Famous Books

... bear-skins on the rough board floor, and on the walls horns of moose and caribou. Here roared an open fireplace and a big wood-burning stove. And here Smoke met the social elect of Dawson—not the mere pick-handle millionaires, but the ultra-cream of a mining city whose population had been recruited from all the world—men like Warburton Jones, the explorer and writer; Captain Consadine of the Mounted Police; Haskell, Gold Commissioner of ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

... if I would get him chosen in the Place of the Deceased, he would present me with a Barrel of the best October I had ever drank in my Life. The Ladies are in great Pain to know whom I intend to elect in the Room of WILL. HONEYCOMBE. Some of them indeed are of Opinion that Mr. HONEYCOMBE did not take sufficient care of their Interests in the Club, and are therefore desirous of having in it hereafter a Representative of their own Sex. A Citizen who subscribes ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... in the first Place, how greatly they misapprehend the Nature of this Attribute; and, in the second Place, granting it to be as they say, I shall then shew the precarious and miserable Condition of all Mankind, not excepting the Elect themselves, under the Government ...

— Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those DOCTRINES. • Richard Finch

... than a mere cloak of invisibility for enemies or conditional supporters of the Communists. I know of considerable country districts which, in the face of every kind of agitation, insist on returning exclusively non-party delegates. The local Soviets in these districts are also non-party, and they elect usually a local Bolshevik to some responsible post to act as it were as a buffer between themselves and the central authority. They manage local affairs in their own way, and, through the use of tact on both sides, avoid falling foul of the ...

— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome

... the High Priest elect, by the Emperor. Address by The High Priest. Confirmation of the 7 years Covenant between the Hebrew Nation and the Emperor. Affirmatory Signatures and Seals affixed. Sign of the Sacrament to be distributed and donned ...

— The Mark of the Beast • Sidney Watson

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