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单词 elect
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electn.1

Etymology: ? < elect v.; or ? < Latin ēlectus , < ēligĕre ; see elect v.
Obsolete.
= election n.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > [noun]
curec1000
custOE
chirec1175
choosingc1200
choice1297
walea1352
dilection1388
election1393
elect1398
choose1430
option1549
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xix. 44 By electes and choys [L. electione] of his owne free aduysement he..wolde be rebell agaynst god.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 141 Schire Henry..Wald þis Elect had beene undone Sua þat his son mycht be Promovit to þat Dignite.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

electadj.n.2

Brit. /ᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S. /əˈlɛk(t)/, /iˈlɛk(t)/
Forms: Also Middle English elekte, eleckte, Middle English–1500s electe.
Etymology: < Latin ēlectus, past participle of ēligĕre to pick out, choose.
A. adj.
1. Picked out, chosen; also, chosen for excellence or by preference; select, choice. Also absol. a person or persons chosen.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [adjective] > selecting > selected
elect?a1400
pickedc1450
sorted1547
elected1549
select1565
selected1590
exempt?1611
delibated1656
singled1870
?a1400 Chester Pl. I. (1843) 212 Man..which is his owne eleckte.
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) Introd. 3 A Booke of secrets given by God; To men Elect, a Beaten-Trod.
1520 Chron. Eng. i. f. 8/1 Saul..was a good man and elect of God.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 106 To be prestys..such only schold be admyttyd as have electe wyttys.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. ii. f. 48v Take Iris electe, what quantitie you will.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xl. 537 Hee..shipped a thousand elect and choise souldiours..in gallies.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iv. 58 You haue heere Lady..the elect o' th' Land, who are assembled To pleade your Cause. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 214 The Race elect..advance Through the wilde Desert. View more context for this quotation
1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 10 This country..the land elect of liberty.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 310 He saw..that small procession of the elder poets to which only elect centuries can add another laurelled head.
1876 G. Bradford in N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 4 The executive, the elect of the whole state, has..no..medium of communication with his constituents.
2.
a. spec. in Theology. Chosen by God, esp. for salvation or eternal life. Opposed to reprobate. Often absol. with plural sense, the elect.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > saved
safec1300
chosen1382
saveda1400
ransomedc1425
redempt?a1430
pre-electc1475
elect1526
redeemed1538
elected1548
redempted1623
Israelistic1684
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biiii His owne elect and chosen chyldren.
1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 41 The electe shal be there with their bodyes.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Rom. viii. 33 Who shal accuse against the elect of God?
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iv. 56 The elect Angels are without possibilitie of falling.
1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 83 It makes..the Elect and Reprobate, all alike.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 136 In the blessed Spirits elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd. View more context for this quotation
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 105 I mean the Sect of those Elect, That's loath to live by Merit.
a1763 J. Byrom Predestination, etc. (R.) While others..Are mercy's vessels, precious and elect.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 333/2 All the elect are effectually called at some point of time in life.
b. allusively. (Cf. Matthew xxiv. 24.)
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1885 J. J. Manley in Brit. Almanac Compan. 29 The street was a miracle in lath and plaster, which might almost deceive the very elect.
3. Chosen to an office or dignity. Now usually, Chosen, elected, but not installed in office (in this sense almost always following the noun).bride-elect, bridegroom-elect: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > elected
elected1549
elect1643
society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointed by nomination > but not installed
designed1581
designate1646
elect1726
designated1868
1643 W. Prynne Opening Great Seale 21 And that the Warden of Yarmouth so elect and sworne, shall, etc.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 128 The Bishop elect takes the Oaths of Supremacy.
1742 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) I. v. 393 Sextius was one of the Tribunes elect.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) I. (at cited word) A lord mayor is elect, before his predecessor's mayoralty is expired.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xi. 221 The elect bishop of Cambray was taken prisoner.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vi. 172 My captain elect.
B. n.2
1. One ‘chosen’ by God, esp. one chosen for eternal salvation; one of ‘the elect’ (cf. A. 2).
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] > person
Israelitec1384
chooselinga1400
predestinate1529
elect1532
Zionite1596
comprehensor1651
sanctificationist1868
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 525/2 Yet are there also in thys churche of electes, manye that neuer came to the fayth.
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlijv A fore warnynge to hys electes.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. ix. 141 Saule..was an elect.
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 20 It is probable that every elect hath his proper and peculiar Angell.
2. One that has been chosen for an office or function; often spec. = bishop-elect n. at bishop n. Compounds 2. Obsolete.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [noun]
electionc1270
lectiona1300
electc1425
electing1611
society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > nomination to office > fact of being nominated > one who is nominated
elite?a1400
electc1425
electee1593
nominate1599
nominee1688
nomination1833
presentee1838
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 121 Comfermyt he wes Elect of Legis Ðat Bischoprike in þe Impire is.
1490–1 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 197 Item for a compositioun maid with Master Johne Guthre, elect of Ross, for the anna of the temporalite.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 133 Afterwarde he [sc. the Pope] refuseth bothe the electes, and preferreth Stephan Langton.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation vi. 98 Parker and the other four Elects..did offer to give unto her yearly a thousand marks.
3. = electo n. Obsolete.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [noun] > mutineer > leader chosen by mutineers
electo1609
electa1781
a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) ii. 93 Having chosen an elect, or leader.
4. In the Royal College of Physicians: One of the eight officers (abolished in 1860) who had formerly the function of granting licences, and the right of electing the President of the College from their own number.
ΚΠ
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 5 §3 That the sixe persons beforesaid..chusing to them two moe..be called and cleaped Elects.
1697 View Penal Laws 8 Apothecaries faulty Wares, to be destroyed by the President and Elects of the Colledge of Physicians in London.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 133/2 The constituted officers then of this corporation are the eight elects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

electv.

Brit. /ᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S. /əˈlɛk(t)/, /iˈlɛk(t)/
Forms: Also 1500s electe. Scottish eleck. past tense and participle elected, 1500s elect(e.
Etymology: < ēlect- participial stem of ēligĕre (see elect adj.).
1. transitive. To pick out, choose (usually, for a particular purpose or function). Also absol. Obsolete in general sense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose
markOE
to choose out1297
out-trya1325
cullc1330
welec1330
try1340
walea1350
coil1399
drawa1400
to mark outa1450
electa1513
sorta1535
prick1536
exempta1538
select1567
sort1597
to gather out1611
single1629
delibate1660
to cut out1667
outlooka1687
draught1714
draft1724
to tell off1727
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. viii. sig. o.iiiv A Noble gentilman..Elected a spouses at his owne deuice.
1557 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Chron. Warre agaynst Jugurth (Paynell) 28 b He had elect and assembled such compani as him thought competent for an army.
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxiv. sig. Kiv v Hauing therefore elected a loftie seate.
1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne 28 A heedefull care wee ought to haue, When we doe frends elect.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 4 Take your oath, That you elect no other King but him. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. i. 18 We haue with speciall soule Elected him our absence to supply. View more context for this quotation
1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum ii. 6 Elect your hair not from lean, poor or diseas'd Jades.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxv. 484 The magnetic needle elects its position.
2.
a. To make deliberate choice of (a course of action, an opinion, etc.) in preference to an alternative. In legal use often absol.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > choose one of two alternatives
elect1509
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure viii. i Comyn wytte doothe full well electe What it shoulde take, and what it shall abjecte.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 59 It can suspend its own acting, either of electing or rejecting.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 26 He must therefore elect.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 334/1 They are seldom called to adjudicate upon it, except where the party has already elected.
1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 144 He elected goodness as the clue to which the soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §25 The Motives which we determinately elect as our guiding principles of action.
b. with infinitive as obj. (Now common, but formerly chiefly in legal use).
ΚΠ
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 45 If there bee an overplus of goods..then ought he..to determine what goods hee doth elect to haue in value.
1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 182 I would not have Christians..elect to read God's word, rather in any book than his own.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 905 The assured may elect to abandon to the underwriter all right to such part of the property as may be saved.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 65 The daughter..was a lunatic, and therefore incompetent to elect to take the estate as land or money.
1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xvi. 256 She was secretly delighted that the jester had elected to live with her.
3. To choose (a person) by vote for appointment to an office or position of any kind. Used in three different constructions: to elect (a person) to (an office, etc.); to elect (an officer, etc.); and with complement, as ‘they elected him their chief’. Also absol.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > choose for office [verb (transitive)]
elite?1440
electa1513
voice1594
vote1643
scratch1841
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccii. f. cxiiiv Gerbres..was Electe Pope of Rome.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xix. sig. g.v Sexburge was electe To be abbesse.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 228 If you will elect by my aduise, Crowne him and say, Long liue our Emperour. View more context for this quotation
1743 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) II. xvii. 94 They resolved to elect an Inter-Rex.
1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. ix. 247 They elected for their king Don Ferdinand de Valor.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 71 You wha was..by the brutes themsels elekit, To be their guide.
1867 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. i. 32 Few of the Scotch towns ventured to elect their chief magistrate from among their own people.
4. Theology. Of God: To choose (certain of His creatures) in preference to others, as the recipients of temporal or spiritual blessings; esp. to choose as the objects of eternal salvation. Also absol.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > save, redeem [verb (transitive)]
aleseOE
abyeOE
buyc1175
washc1175
winc1220
salvea1225
savec1225
forbuyc1315
ransomc1350
signc1350
again-buya1382
forechoosea1400
gain-buy1435
redeemc1438
pre-elect1561
sa'1604
electa1617
unsina1631
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 42 Antecedency of faith before the act of electing.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 68 To induce the Lord to elect or predestinate.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 333/1 Particular persons, without any regard whatever to their merits or demerits, are elected, or rejected for ever.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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