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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Pick :: Pick (n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick..
Evangelistary :: Evangelistary (n.) A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service..
Prelection :: Prelection (n.) A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
Election :: Election (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Semi-pelagian :: Semi-Pelagian (n.) A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints..
Processional :: Processional (n.) A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn..
Psychogenesis :: Psychogenesis (n.) Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection..
Storven :: Storthing (n.) The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions..
Designation :: Designation (n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
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..
Chrestomathy :: Chrestomathy (n.) A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy..
Infralapsarian :: Infralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; -- opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.
Elector :: Elector (a.) Pertaining to an election or to electors.
Vote :: Vote (n.) That by means of which will or preference is expressed in elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a ticket; as, a written vote..
Reeligible :: Reeligible (a.) Eligible again; capable of reelection; as, reeligible to the same office..
Lection :: Lection (n.) A lesson or selection, esp. of Scripture, read in divine service..
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..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election..
Semibull :: Semibull (n.) A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.
Cento :: Cento (n.) A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.
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