noun
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One chosen or set apart.
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In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
verb
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To choose or make a decision (to do something)
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To choose (a candidate) in an election
adjective
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Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
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He is the President elect.
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Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
Examples of elect in a Sentence
They therefore elect elders, who expound the Scriptures, baptize and hear confessions.
In America they have struggled to elect a leader.
The department which is to elect a senator when a vacancy occurs is settled by lot.
Each city and town without regard to population was to elect one senator.
The members of the board serve gratuitously, but elect a salaried secretary.
The leaders of the crusaders then met to elect an emperor.
Also, you might elect to choose an accent for variety.
The military element, moreover, has frequently conspired to elect a president amenable to its demands.
Under the provisions of the charter of 1908 the people elect a mayor, city treasurer, city comptroller, and judges of the municipal court, each for a term of two years.
The heads of houses were to elect a superior general, and Rice held this office from 1822 to 1838, during which time the institution extended to several English towns (especially in Lancashire), and the course of instruction grew out of the primary stage.
He was one of the bishops elect whom Anselm refused to consecrate (1101) as having been nominated and invested by the lay power.
In a rural parish where there is no parish council, though the acts are adopted by the parish meeting, it is still necessary to elect the burial board, and that board will be elected by the parish meeting.
The crown thereupon grants to the dean and chapter its licence under the great seal to elect a new bishop, accompanied by a letter missive containing the name of the person whom the dean and chapter are to elect.
Edwards supposes in the nature of God an original disposition to an " emanation " of His being, and it is the excellency of this divine being, particularly in the elect, which is, in his view, the final cause and motive of the world.
The term "elect" was, however, omitted even in formal documents when the sovereign was addressed or was spoken of in the third person.
Immediately on erban's death the boiars, to prevent the Porte from handing over the office to the Greek adventurer who bid the highest, proceeded to elect his sister's son Constantine Brancovan.
The treaty was hardly concluded when it was violated by the Porte, which refused to recognize the right of the Walachian boiars to elect their voivode, and nominated Alexander Ypsilanti, a creature of its own.
The principalities, however, determined to elect Prince Charles, the of Prince second son of Prince Charles Antony of HohenzollernSigmaringen.
After having held several curule offices, he was consul elect in A.D.
But John descended upon them in great wrath, and by threats compelled them to hold a second meeting, and to elect his nominee Gray, in whose name application for confirmation was also made to the pope.
The representatives of the chapter who had been sent to Rome were persuaded or compelled to elect him in the popes presence (Dec. 1206).
Christ as man was one of the Elect (and their head); He needed grace; He depended upon the Holy Spirit.
In 1176 an attempt was made to elect him bishop of St David's, but Henry II.
In 1687 the ecclesiastical commission forcibly installed him as president of Magdalen College, Oxford, the fellows having refused to elect any of the king's nominees.
The existence of this charter was denied, but the desired privileges were conceded, including the right to elect a mayor.
The emperor, on the one hand, preserved feudal suzerainty over ecclesiastical benefices; but, on the other, he ceased to confer ring and crozier, and thereby not only lost the right of refusing the elect on the grounds of unworthiness, but also was deprived of an efficacious means of maintaining vacancies in ecclesiastical offices.
The king voluntarily abandoned lay investiture and the claim to homage during the pontificate of Paschal II., but continued to interfere with elections, to appropriate the revenues of vacant benefices, and to exact an oath of fealty before admitting the elect to the enjoyment of his temporalities.
Upon his death the nobles assembled to elect a king; and Hugh the Great, Rudolphs brother-in-law, moved by irresolution as much as by prudence, instead of taking the crown, preferred to restore the Carolingians once more in the person of Charles the Simples son, Louis dOutremer, himself claiming numerous privileges and enjoying the exercise of power unenculnbered by a title which carried with it the jealousy of the nobles.
He stumbled unawares upon the revolt of a proud national spirit, evolved through ten historic centuries; and the trap of Bayonne, together with the enthroning of Joseph Bonaparte, made the contemptible prince of the Asturias the elect of popular sentiment, the representative of religion and country.
In February 1835 he was elected public prosecutor of the first judicial circuit, the most important at that time in Illinois; in 1835 he was one of several Democrats in Morgan county to favour a state Democratic convention to elect delegates to the national convention of 1836 - an important move toward party regularity; in December 1836 he became a member of the state legislature.
Should all lines become extinct, the nation may elect its monarch.
At the same time he was proclaimed consul elect, and adopted by Ulpius Crinitus, military governor of Illyria and Thrace.
The person accused of the offense also has the right to elect to be tried at the Crown Court in these cases.
He will be opposed when the group meet to elect new office bearers.
We'll give people the power to elect their own local police commissioner.
The parishes also elect members of the deanery synod for their rural deanery.
The farm produces fruit for both the home and European export markets and allows workers to elect delegates to the union.
Employees must be given the same status as shareholders and the consequent right to elect directors to the Board.
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president.
Surveillance is initiated and some of the female members of the family elect to have prophylactic mastectomy.
This will be followed by a meeting of the officers elected under the Chairmanship of the AGM Chairman - to elect officers elected under the Chairmanship of the AGM Chairman - to elect officers to posts.
Augustine had taught only the predestination of the elect which he understood in terms of God's positive choice to redeem.
Instead, the elect were a people in covenant with God, a scattered remnant of the faithful, separated from the sinners.
But it still worries me that the wrong sort of people go into politics and that we continue to elect them.
Students may elect to follow pathways, which focus on particular specialisms or cognate areas.
Objectors may address the Committee either singularly or may elect a spokesperson.
The stewards within an NHS region elect a regional steward.
This comrade was made indignant by the conduct of the Yugoslavs, who employed various subterfuges to elect candidates of their own choice.
The Council of Governors The NHS foundation trust members elect governors.
Germany when, i the autumn of 1273, the princes met to elect a king.