Definition of election

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Election (a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other..

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Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections..
Reform :: Reform (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government..
Election :: 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..
Anthem :: Anthem (n.) Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music..
Military :: Military (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition..
Storven :: Storthing (n.) The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions..
Poll :: Poll (v. i.) To vote at an election.
Prelection :: Prelection (n.) A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
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..
Reading :: Reading (n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.
Election :: Election (a.) Those who are elected.
Option :: Option (n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
Selection :: Selection (n.) The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference..
Canvass :: Canvass (n.) To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote..
Electioneerer :: Electioneerer (n.) One who electioneers.
Pericope :: Pericope (n.) A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon..
Psychogenesis :: Psychogenesis (n.) Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection..
Return :: Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information..
Conclave :: Conclave (n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals..
Processional :: Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn..
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