Definition of election

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Election (a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor..

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Rota :: Rota (n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament..
Vocal :: Vocal (n.) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
Nominate :: Nominate (v. t.) To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place..
Detail :: Detail (n.) The selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected..
Ticket :: Ticket (v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
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..
Nominee :: Nominee (n.) A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office..
Fortition :: Fortition (n.) Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
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..
Decimation :: Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment..
Particularism :: Particularism (n.) The doctrine of particular election.
Selection :: Selection (n.) The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference..
Storven :: Storthing (n.) The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions..
Selection :: Selection (n.) That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books..
Elector :: Elector (a.) Pertaining to an election or to electors.
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) A book of selections for declamation.
Nonelection :: Nonelection (n.) Failure of election.
Return :: Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers..
Adversaria :: Adversaria (n. pl.) A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes..
Reelection :: Reelection (n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief..
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