Definition of elect

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Elect (a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

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Potentiometer :: Potentiometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.
Townsman :: Townsman (n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman..
Critical :: Critical (n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious..
Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book..
Moon-culminating :: Moon-culminating (a.) Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude..
Selecting :: Selecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Selec.
Electrolyzed :: Electrolyzed (imp. & p. p.) of Electrolyz.
Electrify :: Electrify (v. t.) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body..
Election :: Election (a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.
Idioelectric :: Idioelectric (a.) Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric.
Wardroom :: Wardroom (n.) A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc..
Excerption :: Excerption (n.) That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
Electro-motive :: Electro-motive (a.) Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects..
Choice :: Choice (n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination..
Frictional :: Frictional (a.) Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity..
Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..
Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t..
Electrifiable :: Electrifiable (a.) Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it..
Prelect :: Prelect (v. i.) To discourse publicly; to lecture.
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